I think he meant to replicate the diff functionality inside your app, and handle the output your own way to display the results. AFAIK, you can't call any command line programs from an iOS app... -------------------------------------- Sergio Campamá sergiocamp...@gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Koen van der Drift <koenvanderdr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought about diff, but can I use that without NSTask, etc which aren't > available on iOS? > > Also came across this: > https://github.com/inquisitiveSoft/DiffMatchPatch-ObjC, which could be > useful. > > Thanks for your imput, > > - Koen. > > > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:03 AM, ChanMaxthon <xcvi...@me.com> wrote: > >> I think you can embed code from BSD diff in your program. That is plain C >> and you just need to call it using your Objective-C code. >> >> Alternatively you can look into the implementation of BSD diff or GNU >> diffutils and rewrite it using Objective-C or Swift for your project. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> > On Aug 13, 2014, at 20:34, Koen van der Drift <koenvanderdr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Is there any way to use a diff tool in an iOS app? My app at one point >> > needs to find the difference between two large text files, and using diff >> > or something similar may be a possible solution. Both files are >> downloaded >> > as NSData objects from an external source, and right now I have converted >> > them to NSString objects. But they can be in any format, as long as I can >> > find a way which lines have changed. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > - Koen. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> > >> > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> > >> > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/xcvista%40me.com >> > >> > This email sent to xcvi...@me.com >> > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/sergiocampama%40gmail.com > > This email sent to sergiocamp...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
