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 10:54:06 -0400
Thanks the clarification, I misread the answer.
Any tips for where I can find the source code for BSD diff? I found the GNU
diffutils already here: http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/.
- Koen.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Sergio Campamá <email@hidden>
wrote:
> I think he meant to replicate the diff functionality inside your app,
> and handle the output your own way to display the results. AFAIK, you
> can't call any command line programs from an iOS app...
> --------------------------------------
> Sergio Campamá
> email@hidden
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Koen van der Drift
> <email@hidden> wrote:
> > 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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