On 2020-05-08, at 12:46:56, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote: > > I have one file that includes copies of several others. When one of the > component files is updated, I want to compare and show the differences. > Anybody have an existing idiom for picking out the section of a file > between the first and last matches with another file? (I don't control > the process of building the big file, so I can't just add section > delimiters, but I can easily filter out commonly occurring lines like > blanks and headers.) > If you have access to the component files, can't you replicate a copy of the big file from them and compare?
How would you deal with false matches? Can you preserve copies of the component files and compare piecewise? How would you use the output of comparing? -- gil
