Further to the hint in haukex's post:   The bitwise-xor of equal length strings (update: assumed to be ASCII strings; see sundialsvc4's point here++) is a neat differencing trick. Here's an example that extracts zero-based offsets of differing characters: 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"my ($x, $y, $z) = qw(TTTATTT  TTTTTTT  TBTTTTT);
 ;;
 for my $ar ([ $x, $y ], [ $x, $z ], [ $y, $z ], ) {
   my ($p, $q) = @$ar;
   my $d = $p ^ $q;
   my @offsets;
   push @offsets, $+[0]-1 while $d =~ m{ \G \x00* [^\x00] }xmsg;
   print $p;
   print $q;
   if (@offsets) {
     printf qq{diff(s) at offset(s) %s \n}, join q{, }, @offsets;
     }
   else {
     print qq{no diffs \n};
     }
   }
"
TTTATTT
TTTTTTT
diff(s) at offset(s) 3
TTTATTT
TBTTTTT
diff(s) at offset(s) 1, 3
TTTTTTT
TBTTTTT
diff(s) at offset(s) 1

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BTW: I, too, find your OP a bit vague.

Update: Arrrgh! Use  m{ [^\x00] }xmsg instead of  m{ \G \x00* [^\x00] }xmsg (simpler == better).
Double Arrrgh! Even simpler: Instead of
    push @offsets, $+[0]-1 while $d =~ m{ [^\x00] }xmsg;
use
    push @offsets, $-[0] while $d =~ m{ [^\x00] }xmsg;
(See perlvar for  @+ and  @- regex special variables.)

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In reply to Re: compare initial by AnomalousMonk
in thread compare initial by dideod.yang

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