He was just being a simple tool. There was no intention of that working. There is nothing built in to do anything like this.
You may be able to find a compare/merge command line tool that you can cfexecute... else, in CF... basically what you would have to do is: 1) Remove the parts that DO match since its all you can pinpoint initially By 'remove' I mean extract and replace with a marker and store the removed text in an array so you can put it back where it goes later 2) Then what you have left is only the unmatched words/letters/numbers/punctuation etc... wrap your spanned highlight code around each of those words/numbers/etc... that are left 3) Then put the extracted parts back into their places I can think of a number of weird scenarios to throw a wrench in the 'basic' logic for something like this and foresee it getting rather involved. You'll have to ask yourself if it is worth it or not. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com -----Original Message----- From: Abigail Coker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:34 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Comparing 2 different chunks of text >// just use equality comparison ><cfif textChunk1 IS textChunk2> > The two chucks seem from the same stock. ><cfelse> > You're nuts. Just kidding :) ></cfif> But using equality will only tell you if they're equal or not e.g. the compare function will only return a -1,0 or 1. I was hoping that there is a function or a UDF out there that will compare two different strings and highlights the different words or character in the second string... hope it makes sense... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306142 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
