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- From: kllove@wildcat.ecn.uoknor.edu (Kenneth L Love)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Comparing ASCII files
- Message-ID: <By0syG.I3G@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:13:22 GMT
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- Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- I need to be able to compare 2 ASCII files.
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- The output should be switchable between matching lines and differing lines.
- Also, it would be nice, but not necessary, to have the program ignore
- white-space before and after text.
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- Any ideas?
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- Also, I would like to be able to remove white-space before and after text.
- The reason for this? I have some dBASE program files (from a PisC DOG) that
- have been manipulated by so many programs (conversion between dBase II ->
- III -> III+ -> DBXL -> QuickSilver -> Arago DBXL/QuickSilver and SCAN-a-
- Lyzer! BTW, if anybody uses Scan I've found a slight bug in its "Re-format"
- option. E-mail me for details.) that somewhere along the lines MANY extra
- spaces have been added to the end of lines that is COMPLETELY unecessary.
- This system takes up 2.7 MBs of space right now. I think it could go down
- to 2.4. I don't think the compiled code (3.1 MBs w/overlays -- blech!) size
- changes (it shouldn't!), but I'd prefer the more compact code anyway.
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- If you have seen/heard of a program on the Atari or those Klone machines,
- please point me in the right direction. (Short of c.s.ibm.* groups that
- is! :)
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- Ramblings from,
- Kenneth Love
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