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Compare text files enhancement
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 2:59 pm
by boldan
In "Compare text files" (Ctrl-F9) input screen, I would like to have 2 more options:
1. Number of records to compare
2. "From column" and "To clumn" to compare.
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 6:00 pm
by MudGuard
Get yourself
ExamDiff (or
ExamDiffPro if you are willing to pay a few dollars for an enhanced version).
It is much better than the text output from the Textpad diff command...
An excellent text comparsion tool is WinMerge
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 7:52 am
by csalsa
An excellent text comparsion tool is WinMerge. It is an open-source project hosted on SourceForege. It is a very active project and RC2 for version 2.0 has just been released.
WinMerge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge
A visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. Useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 9:59 am
by DOC_Oetkar
You can always give BeyondCompare, available at
www.scootersoftware.com, a try. It's Shareware.
I use it for 2 Years now as standard compare tool and i didn't find any better.
Mainly i use i for comparing Delphi source.
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 3:28 pm
by altan
"BeyondCompare" is a most impressive application. I could not wait to pay for it ($30) as I used it during evaluation period
Suggestion for enhancement: When comparing files in PC and UNIX format, if the "contents" are the "same" Textpad indicates "identical". It should however also indicate that they are in different "formats" (even though they contain the same information).
I was very puzzled recently when the UNIX diff kept telling me that two files were completely different although Textpad indicated that they were identical (visually too, of course).