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Text Comparison - General Options

Dialog Box Options

• Case
  Consider upper- and lower-case to be the same.
  
  
• Linebreak styles
  Ignore linebreak styles: CRLF (DOS/Windows) vs. LF (Unix) vs. CR (Mac).
  
  
• Comments
  Ignore comments, as defined by the document type in use. Alternatively, you can use the Ignore Comments toolbar button .

• All
  Ignore all white space in lines.
  
  
• Leading
  Ignore leading white space in lines.
  
  
• Trailing
  Ignore trailing white space in lines.
  
  
• Changes in amount
  Ignore changes in the amount of white space in lines.
  
  

• All blank lines
  Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.
  
  
• Blank lines at the end of a file
  Ignore changes whose lines are all blank if they are at the end of a file.
  
  
• Lines matching regular expression
  Ignore changes whose lines all match a specified regular expression.
  
  
• Row ranges
  Ignore all lines whose line number falls within specified ranges. Use a comma-separated list of individual ranges, each of which is either a single number or a pair of hyphen-separated numbers. You can also prefix a range with "1:" or "2:" to apply it only to the first or to the second file (by default ranges apply to both files). Examples:

  • 2-7
  • 1:1-6,2:12,20-[6]
  • [m]-n is not a valid string, for any integers m and n.

• Parts matching regular expression
  Ignore, in each line, parts matching a specified regular expression. For instance, specifying //.* as a regular expression will make ExamDiff Pro ignore all single-line C++-style comments.
  
  
• Column ranges
  Ignore, in each line, all text in specified ranges of columns. Use a comma-separated list of individual ranges, each of which is either a single number or a pair of hyphen-separated numbers. You can also prefix a range with "1:" or "2:" to apply it only to the first or to the second file (by default ranges apply to both files). See examples above under the description for Row ranges.
  
  
  Note that columns can be defined as single characters, in which case you will be ignoring ranges of characters in each line, or as line parts delimited by any of specified characters (by default, comma or tab). The latter allows you to ignore columns in comma- or tab- (or any other character of your choice) delimited files.

View differences down to word or character level. Thus, if one letter is changed in a file, then you can choose whether only the line of the change is identified, the line and the word where the change occurred, or the line and the character where the change occurred. Alternatively, you can use the Detail Level drop-down toolbar button .

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