Re: Are there any tools that can compare two source files

"Joachim Durchholz" <joachim_d@gmx.de>
11 Dec 2001 21:34:54 -0500

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From: "Joachim Durchholz" <joachim_d@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Dec 2001 21:34:54 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 01-12-027
Keywords: tools
Posted-Date: 11 Dec 2001 21:34:54 EST

Satyanandam Gullapudi <satyanandam_g@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am
> looking for a tool which can generate the structure trees for the
> source file and compare them.


One of the Perl modules (algorithm::diff or something) can do the
comparison if you have the trees. You'll have to pass in a function that
recursively calls the diff function on the subtrees of a node, but it
looks very promising.
Not that Perl is the best choice for representing trees, of course.


Regards,
Joachim

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