in reply to diff of two strings

In the spirit of finding a solution (versus an algorithm), have you reviewed CPAN's Text::WordDiff? It appears capable of doing what you'd like. In the authors words: 
To diff source code, one is still best off using 
Text::Diff. But if you want to see how a short story 
changed from one version to the next, this module will
 do the job very nicely.

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Re^2: diff of two strings
by flaviusm (Acolyte) on Jan 07, 2008 at 20:36 UTC

    rgiskard,

    I did not know about Text::WordDiff module, but I just installed it and tried it.

    The module does a great job identifying the differences of the two strings. However, the module seems to be lacking some functionality in regard to my specific problem

    Problems:
    - the result generated by the module is a single string color coded of the combined two strings => I need two strings (original strings) but with new/changed words tagged (see example in original posting).
    - I did not find a functionality in the module to give me an indication if a certain word is new or it just changed its position in the string.

    However, I will take a look in the module's source code, I might get an idea about their algorithm

    Thanks a lot

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