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Renda Skandier
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‎10-09-2003 03:07 AM

‎10-09-2003 03:07 AM

Using diff to compare 2 programs

I'm trying to compare the source code of 2 C programs. The problem is there was alot of formatting done so diff yeilds thousands of differences.
Is there a way to compare actual text excluding spacing & format differences?
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Vitek Pepas
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‎10-09-2003 03:16 AM

‎10-09-2003 03:16 AM

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Re: Using diff to compare 2 programs

'diff -w' will ignore whitspaces
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Paddy_1
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‎10-09-2003 03:45 AM

‎10-09-2003 03:45 AM

Re: Using diff to compare 2 programs

diff -ibw would be better as it would ignore case too.
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Umapathy S
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‎10-09-2003 04:34 AM

‎10-09-2003 04:34 AM

Re: Using diff to compare 2 programs

tkdiff is a good tool. Many times I use this to compare files with its original version.
http://www.accurev.com/free/tkdiff/
You need to have tcl/tk installed for this.
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Tcl/tcl-8.3.4/
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Tcl/tk-8.3.4/

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Umapathy
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