Hi - sorry for this "beginner" question
I am aligning two .txt files by line
file1:
line1:aaa
line2:bbb
line3:bbc
line4:bbd
file2:
line1:aaa
line2:bba (extra)
line3:bbb
line4:bbc
line4:bbd
The result I am getting:
aaa - aaa
bbb - bba (wrongly aligned)
- bbb (wrongly by itself)
bbc - bbc
bbd - bbd
Obviously bc3 is looking for an initial match per line (bb...) and then aligns right away, besides the fact that there is a better match in the next line.
a) is there a way to set the criteria to be more strict in general?
b) could I define that the first 5 or 10 characters per line (at the beginning of the line!) have to be 100% identical to get an alignement, otherwise it should be isolated lines as result (respectively: check the following lines for the exact match).
Thanks for you help, Heike
I am aligning two .txt files by line
file1:
line1:aaa
line2:bbb
line3:bbc
line4:bbd
file2:
line1:aaa
line2:bba (extra)
line3:bbb
line4:bbc
line4:bbd
The result I am getting:
aaa - aaa
bbb - bba (wrongly aligned)
- bbb (wrongly by itself)
bbc - bbc
bbd - bbd
Obviously bc3 is looking for an initial match per line (bb...) and then aligns right away, besides the fact that there is a better match in the next line.
a) is there a way to set the criteria to be more strict in general?
b) could I define that the first 5 or 10 characters per line (at the beginning of the line!) have to be 100% identical to get an alignement, otherwise it should be isolated lines as result (respectively: check the following lines for the exact match).
Thanks for you help, Heike
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