Just trying to get diff to work better for certain kinds of documents. With LaTeX, for example, I might have a long paragraph that is strictly just one line, but I don't want to see that entire paragraph if just a sentence is changed. Particularly if I'm running some kind of version control and a co-author edits the same paragraph (but n...
This StackOverflow answer has an image of KDiff3 highlighting intra-line differences. Does someone know of a tool which can show the same (ex, via color) on the command line? Another way to think of this is wanting to diff each difference in a patch file. ...
I frequently need to compare SQL procedures to determine what has changed in the newest version. The problem is, everyone has their own style of formatting, and SQL doesn't (usually) care about where one puts their newlines (e.g. where clauses all on one line vs. newline before each AND). This makes it very difficult (especially for lo...
Hello, I need to do Word by word comparison of two strings. Something like diff, but for words, not for lines. Like it is done in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horapollo&action=historysubmit&diff=21895647&oldid=21893459 In result I want return the two arrays of indexes of words, which are different i...
I would like to show differences between two blocks of text. Rather than comparing lines of text or individual characters, I would like to just compare words separated by specified characters ('\n', ' ', '\t' for example). My main reasoning for this is that the block of text that I'll be comparing generally doesn't have many line break...
Does anybody know of a diff-like tool that can show me the changes between two text files, but ignore changes in whitespace including newlines? Here's an example: the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy bear. the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy bear. the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy bear. the quick brown fox jumped ov...
I have two pieces of text. I would like to make a word-based diff between them (like whe unix utility wdiff does) but with more information in the output (I mean, the character's posizion where the added/delited word starts). I need to do this in Java, so a simple output of the differences (like wdiff) doesn't suite for me: I would like...
i am generating a report showing the different between fields before and after. I have it working but some of the fields are pretty long and the changes are quite subtle. I want some visualization to highlight what has changed. Similar to what you see in: Stackoverflow if you look at question edits One of the text file diff tools wh...