Can we compare two javascript files using C#?

Question

Hi everyone!Can any one Tel me how to Compare the two java script files using C#?I have tried comparing the two text files.But if the first file and second file has same data only a space is extra in Second file.then i showing me a Change.

Answer 1

Do you just need to know if they are exactly the same? If so you could just load them into memory and compare the .length() property...

Answer 2

Technically, if one file contains an extra space they aren't "the same". I would first compare the lengths and if those don't match you'll need to do a byte by byte comparison. If you want to remove extra spaces you'll probably want to do something like a Trim() on the contents of both files first.

Here's a link to an old MS post describing how to create a file compare function:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320348

Answer 3

Since JavaScript is whitespace tolerant (tolerates any amount of whitespace as long as the syntax is correct), the simplest thing to do if you want to compare everything but the whitespace is to regex-replace:

Regex _r = new Regex(@"\s+", RegexOptions.Compiled);
string result = _r.Replace(value, " ");

Run this on both files and compare the results; it replaces any sequence of standard whitespace characters (space, tab, carriage return, vertical tab etc.) with a single space. You can then compare with Equals (case sensitive or not, as you require).

Of course, whitespace IS significant inside strings, so this assumes the string handling in all the compared files does not rely on whitespace too much.

However two very different code files can have the same effects, so if that's what you're after you have a hard job ahead of you.