RE: Question about CPAN's Text::Diff
Why not just use the diff command? Man diff Paul Kraus --- PEL Supply Company Network Administrator -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about CPAN's Text::Diff Hi all: This newbie would like to compare two files, let's say File1 and File2. I want to put the difference from File2 only, into a new file, File3. For example: File1.txt oranges apples bananas File2.txt apples kiwi bananas The result I want for File3 is the new entry in File2, which is kiwi. (I don't care that oranges was in File1 and not File2.) Can the Text:Diff module (or some other means) do this ? (I looked at the Text::Diff doc and it wasn't obvious to me. I hope to play with this later this evening or tomorrow.) Thanks in advance for your help (and for your past help as well !) - Stuart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Question about CPAN's Text::Diff
Stuart Clemons wrote: This newbie would like to compare two files, let's say File1 and File2. I want to put the difference from File2 only, into a new file, File3. For example: File1.txt oranges apples bananas File2.txt apples kiwi bananas The result I want for File3 is the new entry in File2, which is kiwi. (I don't care that oranges was in File1 and not File2.) Can the Text:Diff module (or some other means) do this ? (I looked at the Text::Diff doc and it wasn't obvious to me. I hope to play with this later this evening or tomorrow.) Hi Stuart. Yes, Text::Diff will do that for you, but you will have to write your own formatting class to generate it as it's not one of the standard output formats. You have to be clear that this is the correct solution for you though, as Text::Diff insists that the entirety of the two files to be compared are first read into arrays. It may be just as simple to do that anyway and write something yourself to compare the two, especially if the ordering of the records and multiple identical records aren't signnificant. HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
