Class: DiffListUtility

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Class protocol
  • defaults
  • private
  • utilities

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--DiffListUtility

Package:

stx:libtool

Category:

Views-Text

Version:

rev: 1.11 date: 2018/05/22 16:28:55

user: stefan

file: DiffListUtility.st directory: libtool

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libtool

Author:

cg (cg@CG-PC)

Description:

a utility to encapsulate access to the diff command
(may also be a facade to a smalltalk-diff algorithm, eventually)


[instance variables:]

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Related information:

Class protocol:

 diffCommand

return the diff-command (with argument placeHolders).
By default, diff is used with windows, diff -b with Unix.
You can change this via the diffCommandTemplate

 diffCommandTemplate: aCommandTemplateString

set the diff-command template

 saveForDiff: text as: filename

i := line indexOf:Character return.

 diffListFor: text1 and: text2

execute DiffCommand to get a list of diffs.

usage example(s):

self diffListFor:#( 'hello world' 'line1' 'line3' 'line4' ) and: #( 'Hello World' 'line1' 'line2' 'line3' )