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I find the text compare to be quite disappointing in BC3. The problem involves alignment of similar lines, and no amount of tweaking the alignment settings seems to help.
Quite often text files will contain lines which are the same up to a point, but which have a different end. Typically these are profile, properties or settings files, but they are not INI file format.
BC3's text compare seems to treat each line as an entity, and is not able to look for similarities between lines and align them so that only true differences between the files are found, and - even worse - cannot find lines which match exactly but which are not in exactly the same sequence.
I've attached a screen shot of an example where BC3's text compare is really not doing very well. In this 19 line file, one line, "GeneralSettings<~>PlayTune=false" is exactly the same each side but offset by just one line in each file, yet BC3 is flagging them against different lines: one side as a mismatch with another line, and the other as a new line.
Graham.
Quite often text files will contain lines which are the same up to a point, but which have a different end. Typically these are profile, properties or settings files, but they are not INI file format.
BC3's text compare seems to treat each line as an entity, and is not able to look for similarities between lines and align them so that only true differences between the files are found, and - even worse - cannot find lines which match exactly but which are not in exactly the same sequence.
I've attached a screen shot of an example where BC3's text compare is really not doing very well. In this 19 line file, one line, "GeneralSettings<~>PlayTune=false" is exactly the same each side but offset by just one line in each file, yet BC3 is flagging them against different lines: one side as a mismatch with another line, and the other as a new line.
Graham.
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