in reply to Re^2: Using diff in perl
in thread Using diff in perl

I'm wondering if you shouldn't try using a plain diff tool, and postprocess the result with Perl. I personally find the output of diff -u very easy to parse.

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Re^4: Using diff in perl
by tsk1979 (Scribe) on Apr 05, 2006 at 10:27 UTC
    thanks, I am going to use GNU diff and then post process the results. this will be simpler and faster