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NAME

Text::Same - Look for similarities between files or arrays

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Same;

my @matches = compare "file1.txt", "file2.txt", { ignore_whitespace => 1 };
my @matches = compare \@records1,  \@records2,  { ignore_simple => 3 };

DESCRIPTION

compare() compares two files or arrays of strings and returns a MatchMap object holding the results.

FUNCTIONS

compare

Title   : compare
Usage   : $results = $chunk->compare($options, $file1, $file2)
       or
          $results = $chunk->compare($options, \@array1, \@array2)
          @all_matches = $results->all_matches;
Function: return a MatchMap object holding matches and non-matches between the
          two given files or arrays of strings

AUTHOR

Kim Rutherford <kmr+same@xenu.org.uk>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2005,2006 Kim Rutherford, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.