Re: Super Diff?

I suspect that you are going to be inventing at least a few spokes on that wheel. Step one is quite doable with File::Find which should be already installed with Perl. Step 2 is all you. You should decide how to parse the files and compare them. Do you really need a full file diff? If so you may just consider jobbing it out to the unix diff. If you are just looking for one or two specific things I'd recommend parsing it a little more manually than diff.

Sorry I can't help more than that but it is a weird thing by the description.

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Re: Re: Super Diff? by Tuna (Friar) on Feb 12, 2001 at 22:21 UTC
It is weird. The frustrating part is that the reason I can't do: `foreach my $file(@list_of_files_to_compare_to_start_date_file){ if ($file_a != $file) { print "$file\n"; } }` [download] is that I need to build in logic for brain-dead people that are responsible for certain naming-conventions contained in these files. Because of this, the above could incorrectly report a not-equalling b, based upon my definition of "equals"	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Super Diff?
by Tuna (Friar) on Feb 12, 2001 at 22:21 UTC

foreach my $file(@list_of_files_to_compare_to_start_date_file){
if ($file_a != $file) {
print "$file\n";
  }
}
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