Okay, that does work! I can't believe I missed that. That is my life with reading documentation though.

So now my question is, how do I make those variables instead of just plain text? 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Text::ParagraphDiff;

my $old = 'this is the oooooooold textt';
my $new = 'this is the new text';

print text_diff(["$old"], ["$new"]);

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This doesn't work and gives you a bunch of errors: 
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Text/Pa
+ragraphDiff.pm line 197.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Text/Pa
+ragraphDiff.pm line 125.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Text/Pa
+ragraphDiff.pm line 125.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Text/Pa
+ragraphDiff.pm line 258.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Text/Pa
+ragraphDiff.pm line 258.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /Library/
+Perl/5.8.1/Text/ParagraphDiff.pm line 265.

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There must be a way to do that because I am afraid that some of my text might break that because some of it is 20 pages long and has all sorts of paragraphs, breaks, etc.

THANKS!

In reply to Re: Re: ParagraphDiff Module, modify input type? by inblosam
in thread ParagraphDiff Module, modify input type? by inblosam

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