Re: [MacPerl] Got diff.pl?

[oszarazi@cuug.ab.ca (???)]

On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Greg Branche wrote:

> At 16:22 12/18/96, RxE6%AsiEss%CTS@go50.comp.pge.com wrote:
> >I've searched CPAN and the archive does not seem to be at
> >www.its.unimelb.edu.au, so this long-time lurker (2+ years)
> >asks if anyone knows of a macperl (or other mac) implementation
> >of the beloved diff command.  I need to operate on the differences
> >between two text files.
> 
> I thought I saw a diff archive in the switch site at one point in time. If
> that doesn't work, MPW has a Compare command that does basically the same
> thing.

The MPW Development System (last I checked) needs a 68020 or better
and System 7 or A/UX 3.0 or later.  MacPerl (at least some releases of
it) seems to not suffer from those same constraints.

Does everyone on this list have MPW?  (I feel like odd man out, if
everybody answers yes.)  Writing up a diff though in perl shouldn't be
too difficult and is a great exercise.  

All it is, is simple string comparison.



Istvan.