Re: diff tool on iOS?
Re: diff tool on iOS?
- Subject: Re: diff tool on iOS?
- From: Koen van der Drift <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:31:58 -0400
I thought about diff, but can I use that without NSTask, etc which aren't
available on iOS?
Also came across this:
https://github.com/inquisitiveSoft/DiffMatchPatch-ObjC, which could be
useful.
Thanks for your imput,
- Koen.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:03 AM, ChanMaxthon <email@hidden> wrote:
> I think you can embed code from BSD diff in your program. That is plain C
> and you just need to call it using your Objective-C code.
>
> Alternatively you can look into the implementation of BSD diff or GNU
> diffutils and rewrite it using Objective-C or Swift for your project.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Aug 13, 2014, at 20:34, Koen van der Drift <email@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> > Is there any way to use a diff tool in an iOS app? My app at one point
> > needs to find the difference between two large text files, and using diff
> > or something similar may be a possible solution. Both files are
> downloaded
> > as NSData objects from an external source, and right now I have converted
> > them to NSString objects. But they can be in any format, as long as I can
> > find a way which lines have changed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Koen.
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