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Re: [MacPerl] Got diff.pl?
At 7:26 pm -0500 12/19/96, ??? wrote:
>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.
Have a look at:
http://www.perl.com/perl/CPAN/scripts/text-processing/cdif
and
http://www.perl.com/perl/CPAN/scripts/text-processing/sdif
to get you started.
Doug
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