If you work with web development or coding of some kind you surely know that automated file comparrison is a handy and time saving thing to have on hand. There are many programs available for this function both free and commercial. The editor I use (PSPad) has a fairly good comparison toolset in it. If you are looking for a standalone and feature rich comparison program you may like to check out WinMerge.
WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging
tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has
changed between project versions, and then merging changes between
versions.Features
- Visual differencing and merging of text files
- Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap
- Handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats
- Unicode support
- Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes
- Location pane shows map of files compared
- Highlights differences inside the lines
- File filters in directory pane
- Moved lines detection in file compare pane
- Shell Integration
- Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration
- Archive file support using 7-zip
- Plugin support
- Localizable interface via resource DLL
- HTML-based manual
You can check out winmerge here (www.winmerge.org)
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