File Comparison tool?

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Hello all,
Can anyone suggest a good/decent low cost file comparison tool to look for differences in code?

Thanks,
Tim

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OSX? use the build in DIFF command line tool
WIN? not sure

There are also plenty of 3rd party apps the put a GUI front end of these utilties

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platform ?
On OS X Xcode includes FileMerge which does a decent job of diffing files
BBEdit does a nice job and you can diff entire directory structures full of files

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There’s also https://www.diffchecker.com/

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You might want to look at ARBed. It can look at Xojo project files in binary, xml and version control format. http://www.tempel.org/Arbed/Arbed

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UltraEdit does a better job than BBEdit (my opinion)

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Sorry guys. I left out the critical elements - Windoz.
Will take a look at the ones you all have suggested in the meantime!

Thank you,
Tim

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http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/comp.mspx

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http://www.contexteditor.org/index.php has buildin file compare textbased
http://www.ghisler.com/ has buildin file compare textbased and binary

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I use Araxis Merge on Windows. Easily the best in my opinion, but not cheap by any means. Works will with TortoiseHg (Mercurial-based) source control, which is free to use.

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I agree that UltraEdit is excellent on any platform.

I also use WinMerge when I am working on a machine that does not have UltraEdit.

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I don’t use a plain text editor enough to have bothered looking for anything other than my 5 year old copy of BBEdit :stuck_out_tongue:

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Beyond Compare?

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I looked at Beyond Compare, nice tool, reasonably priced and is very popular on in the comments on other forums like stack overflow. I preferred Araxis Merge in the end, but would have been happy with Beyond Compare.

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I use WinMerge:

http://winmerge.org/

Free!

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Don’t forget TextWrangler! The BBEdit little sister :slight_smile:
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/