Hello! I am trying to use this module Text::ParagraphDiff. It basically compares two documents and shows you what was modified from the old to the new...better for manuscripts than other text difference modules for code. It works great as explained in the instructions, passing in an old and a new file like so: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Text::ParagraphDiff;

print text_diff('/somepath/oldfile.txt','/somepath/newfile.txt');

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but I would like to pass in text as a variable, like from a database instead. I can't seem to figure out where to make changes in the module so I can do this. Any help would be appreciated! The code from the module is here:

cpan copy of module ParagraphDiff.pm

THANKS!


Michael Jensen
http://www.inblosam.com

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