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This script defines comparison utilities and is included in the J standard library. Definitions are loaded into the jcompare locale with cover functions in z.

Definitions

C compare
F fcompare, fcompares

compare (verb)

Compare character data.

Syntax

text1 compare text2

Arguments may be character strings or character matrices with trailing blanks ignored.

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

fcompare (verb)

Compare two text files.

Syntax

opt fcompare files

where:

 opt is optional suffix  files is 2 file names or prefixes, given  either as character string cut on blanks  or as 2-element boxed list

Example

fcompare '~mywork/myutil.ijs ~/jbak/mywork/myutil.ijs'
'/myutil.ijs' fcompare jpath '~mywork';'/jbak/mywork'

fcompares (verb)

as fcompare but ignoring different line separators

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