Class: DiffListUtility

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • defaults
  • private
  • utilities

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--DiffListUtility

Package:

stx:libtool

Category:

Views-Text

Version:

rev: 1.17 date: 2021/12/29 17:28:12

user: cg

file: DiffListUtility.st directory: libtool

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libtool

Description:

a utility to encapsulate access to the diff command
(may also be a facade to a smalltalk-diff algorithm, eventually)


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copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 2009 by eXept Software AG
             All Rights Reserved

This software is furnished under a license and may be used
only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
hereby transferred.

Class protocol:

 diffCommand

return the diff-command (with argument placeHolders).
By default, diff is used with windows, diff -b with Unix.
You can change this via the diffCommandTemplate

 diffCommandTemplate: aCommandTemplateString

set the diff-command template

 saveForDiff: text on: stream

i := line indexOf:Character return.

 diffListFor: text1 and: text2

execute DiffCommand to get a list of diffs.

Usage example(s):

self diffListFor:#( 'hello world' 'line1' 'line3' 'line4' ) and: #( 'Hello World' 'line1' 'line2' 'line3' )