Is there an option to have gdiff only consider a part of a line (specified either as: before/after/between occurrances of a given delimiter, or from/up-to a given character position etc) of a line (but then to show the complete line(s) in the output)?
I currently have files to compare that include timestamps (which are known to have changed). I would like to compare everything but the timestamps. I can use tools like 'cut' or so to easily move them around (to the back) of a line, but diff would have to ignore them there. I still need to see the timestamp in the diff output though, it just should not be the sole determinator for a changed line.. The alternative is of course to write a perl script to split the data, compare only the important parts, but that would need adjustments for each use and not be as performant as I suspect a built-in ability to only consider certain parts of a line would be.
