Re: [Kdiff3-user] How to ignore certain differences in files

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

On Monday 16 May 2005 15:27, Robert Orr wrote:
> I have two program (VB) dirs that I compare which
> are different in many places by only the name of a
> variable (in file1 the variable is "my_var", in file2
> the variable is "My_Var").   So I get quite a few
> trivial differences that in only the name of this
> variable.
>
> Obviously, I could use sed or some other tool to
> pre-process the files, but I wonder if there isn't an
> opportunity to have an option in KDIFF3 to ignore a
> list of pre-defined differences?
>
> Any comments welcome.  Maybe this is already available
> and I'm overlooking it.
>
> Phil

Hi Phil,

Predefined options are "Ignore case", "Ignore numbers" and "Ignore 
C/C++-comments". For other things to ignore you currently need an external 
tool like sed. Possibly I'll integrate more features in future.

Joachim