Rob van der Heij wrote: > So the words are as aligned as you show them in the example?
As aligned as I show in the first example = not necessarily aligned at all. (Obviously, all the words I *don't* want to see are aligned.) Wherever columns differ, I want to see the words in one record or the other (or both) that contain those columns. Where the different character is a blank, I'm not sure what I'd want to see. > just 2 records or should it be the change between consecutive records? Sometimes pairs of records within one file, sometimes pairs of records from two files. When it's one file, sometimes I want to see the change in every record, so I use ... | dup 1 | drop 1 | combine 1 x | ... ¬R
