compare two files ??

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Steve St. Denis

I am looking for a freeware program that will compare two .txt files.
I have a text file that I call master.txt, it has one column of numbers in it,
141.735
414.450
156.785
122.950
and so on.
What I would like to do is find a program that I can take another .txt file and compare it to the master.txt file and any numbers that it finds that are not in the other file will be written to a file so I can deal with them, is there a freeware program out their that will do this ??
Steve
(e-mail address removed)
 
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Blinky the Shark

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Wald

Steve St. Denis said:
What I would like to do is find a program that I can take
another .txt file and compare it to the master.txt file and any
numbers that it finds that are not in the other file will be
written to a file so I can deal with them, is there a freeware
program out their that will do this ??
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You're looking for diffing software. Hmm. Lots of excellent payware
programs (Beyond Compare, Araxis Merge), but AFAIK the freeware
alternatives are still way behind feature-wise, especially in Unicode
support. Some options:

- WinMerge:
http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/

- CSDiff:
http://www.componentsoftware.com/Products/CSDiff/index.htm

- the original GNU diffing utils (if you don't need a GUI):
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/diffutils.htm

- TKDiff: 2- and 3-way diffing, on Unix and Windows, needs a diff.exe
on your path (for example, the GNU diff mentioned above)
http://www.accurev.com/free/tkdiff/

- 3DM: 3-way diffing for XML files:
http://www.cs.hut.fi/~ctl/3dm/

Regards,
Wald
 
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Sanjay Goel

Steve St. Denis said:
I am looking for a freeware program that will compare two .txt files.
I have a text file that I call master.txt, it has one column of numbers in it,
141.735
414.450
156.785
122.950
and so on.
What I would like to do is find a program that I can take another .txt file
and compare it to the master.txt file and any numbers that it finds that
are not in the other file will be written to a file so I can deal with
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them, is >there a freeware program out their that will do this ??
Steve
(e-mail address removed)
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Try Compare It. http://www.grigsoft.com/
Best one that I found out after a lot of search.
I am not clear whether its technically a freeware or shareware, but my copy
has neither expired nor crippled nor any nagging screen ...
Sanjay
 

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