On 12/18/06, Mike Hord <mike.hord@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know a good free file compare utility for ASCII files?
>
> The feature that I really need is a specifiable comment character-
> i.e., "lines that start with ' should be excluded from comparison
> until a new line is reached".  I'm recommenting and refactoring
> old code, and I need a way to see what's changed in type 1
> between versions A and B so that I can upgrade types 2 and 3
> from their current version to their next version.
>
> What a pain.

I've been using "Beyond Compare" for source code comparisons.

http://www.scootersoftware.com/

Don't know if can be told that "lines that start with ' should be excluded",
but it does know how to ignore C comments.

Bill

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