comparison utilities
compare compare character data fcompare compare filesDefined items
Name Class Description compare Verb compare character data fcompare Verb compare 2 text files
returns list of differences. arguments may be character strings, with lines delimited by LF, or character matrices (trailing blanks ignored). for Mac, tolerates lines delimited by CR. result shows lines not matched, in form: n [l] text where: n = 0=left argument, 1=right argument [l] = line number text = text on line limits comparison to 1e6 >: product of number of lines
form: opt fcompare files opt is optional suffix files is 2 file names or prefixes example: fcompare 'system\main\myutil.ijs \jbak\system\main\myutil.ijs' '\myutil.ijs' fcompare 'system\main \jbak\system\main'
system\main\compare.ijs | Release: 4.02/1998-11-13/12:26 |