copy-paste-detection

Tips to show similarities in files

In a project, I found some css files that "smell" like there are copy-pasted rules in them. I wonder what are your strategies for detecting copy-paste stuff in files. Just of curiosity i'd like to hear your tips and tricks for showing file similarities! ...

iphone copy/paste menu not shown in UITableViewCell

I placed a UITextField and a UITextView in a tableviewcell. When tap on text in them, it allows me to enclose a portion of the text with a rectangular popup showing the enclosed text enlarged. I want to either copy or paste over the selected text, but the copy-paste menu never show up whether I single tap, double taps or press and hold. ...

Do tools exist which automatically find copy-and-paste code?

Hello! Are there tools out there which could automatically find copy-and-paste code among a set of files? I was thinking of writing a script for this, which would just search for equal strings, but such script would find mostly irrelevant equalities. (Such as private final static ...). ...

Identifying repeated code within PHP project

I have a single PHP file within a legacy project that is at least a few thousand lines long. It is predominantly separated up into a number of different conditional blocks by a switch statement with about 10 cases. Within each case there is what appears to be a very similar - if not exact duplicate - block of code. What methods are avail...