All diff tools I’ve found are just comparing line by line instead of char by char. Is there any library that gives details on single line strings? Maybe also a percentage difference, though I guess there are separate functions for that?
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All diff tools I’ve found are just comparing line by line instead of char by char. Is there any library that gives details on single line strings? Maybe also a percentage difference, though I guess there are separate functions for that?
This algorithm diffs word-by-word:
http://github.com/paulgb/simplediff
available in Python and PHP. It can even spit out HTML formatted output using the
<ins>and<del>tags.