wdiff in perl?

ssk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hi monks,
do we have any perl modules which would do the task of "wdiff" (an application which compare two text files and create a final file with track changes) in linux?
I am very badly in need of it. Even any other solution (not in linux os) would be helpful for me.

Thanks in advance

ssk

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Re: wdiff in perl? by holli (Abbot) on Mar 04, 2005 at 11:52 UTC
Did you try Text::Diff? holli, /regexed monk/	[reply]
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Re: wdiff in perl? by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Mar 04, 2005 at 11:50 UTC
you mean like diff? Updated: made reference more explicit /J\	[reply]
Re^2: wdiff in perl? by ssk (Initiate) on Mar 04, 2005 at 12:03 UTC
yes basically my objective is to take two text files as input and generate a third compared file, with some delimiters for insertions and deletions Thanks in advance ssk	[reply]
Re: wdiff in perl? by FitTrend (Pilgrim) on Mar 04, 2005 at 13:23 UTC
On thing you may want to consider is to use a source control system like Subversion or CSV. I personally use Subversion. It has built in functionality to perform some extensive diffs between different revisions of a specific file. You can choose to restore all or part of a previous revision. This has certainly saved me in the past :) Thanks Tanktalus! I meant CVS :) Hope this helps /- M a r c -/	[reply]