Re: Character by Character File Compare

2008-06-19 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>I'd be tempted to split the work buy doing a simple check at the start on file sizes. Well, obviously. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Character by Character File Compare

2008-06-19 Thread Kym Kovan
> >>Comparing a hash of > each file would surely reduce the amount of text CF had to throw around > especially if you are performing several tests with the same set of > files. I'd be tempted to split the work buy doing a simple check at the start on file sizes. If they are different then you _k

Re: Character by Character File Compare

2008-06-19 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>Comparing a hash of each file would surely reduce the amount of text CF had to throw around especially if you are performing several tests with the same set of files. Apparently yes, but calculating the hash certainly takes more time than comparing two strings, and it needs to go through the w

RE: Character by Character File Compare

2008-06-19 Thread Brad Wood
very large files, but CF8 has phenomenal improvements in string manipulation and testing over previous versions of CF. ~Brad -Original Message- From: Colman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Character by Character File

RE: Character by Character File Compare

2008-06-19 Thread Brad Wood
~Brad -Original Message- From: Colman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Character by Character File Compare Need to do it programattically since I have about 600 sets of files to compare. Luckily, the files should be identical

RE: Character by Character File Compare

2008-06-19 Thread Colman, Richard
HOWEVER, there is one wrinkle, I actually need to compare three files -Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Character by Character File Compare I would look into a program called Araxis Merge

RE: Character by Character File Compare

2008-06-19 Thread Colman, Richard
. Rick. -Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Character by Character File Compare I would look into a program called Araxis Merge. :) If you're talking about doing so programmatically, that'

RE: Character by Character File Compare

2008-06-19 Thread Brad Wood
I would look into a program called Araxis Merge. :) If you're talking about doing so programmatically, that's going to be a good challenge. What kind of differences? Insertions and deletions? Re-arrangements. For what it's worth, here is a link to some code I messed with a while back for comp