Re: Compare showing sequence number differences

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

:-)    I hear you - the eclipse compare is very nice for regular text 
files, although I still use TextPad for that - I have not seen a 
side-by-side compare in Textpad, but it does show diffs. I'm sure things 
like Notepad II or whatever the name are similar.

Trouble with comparing source -without SourceLanding's tool - is just 
what was described here - source dates are involved. This uses the 
Eclipse compare, I believe.

Now there is another compare tool - it is under the Edit menu - I just 
went looking, because I thought it was there. I think it's like the old 
CODE compare tool - it might be the LPEX editor tool - the one that the 
setting to ignore sequence numbers might relate to.

The latter tool is not accessible from a right-click on the member name, 
so far as I can see - I had to go to the Edit menu - there may be a 
shortcut, I don't know after a quick look-see.

But take a look at this one - it shows the changes intermingled in pink 
(red)and yellow highlighting.

BTW, I use Textpad for Search/Replace - I copy a block of source there, 
then use the really powerful regex functionality there, then copy the 
block back in to the LPEX editor.

HTH
Vern

On 3/13/2012 2:02 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> Copy them to your PC?  That sounds strange to me because I frequently copy PC files to a NetServer share so I can easily compare them using WDSc7.
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> message: 3
> date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:07:53 -0500
> from: Vern Hamberg<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Compare showing sequence number differences
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> You might be better of copying the source to text files on your PC, then
> compare in something like TextPad or one of the other ASCII editors.
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> HTH
> Vern
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> On 3/13/2012 7:52 AM, darren@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I'm running RDP 8.  I'm trying to compare a source member with greater than
> > 32K records, so the SEU options don't work.  I setup two filters, so that I
> > can easily click on both members, and then right-click and say compare with
> > each other.  Every line in the source is registered as a change, and I
> > suspect its because of the sequence/dates.  I've checked preferences under
> > Lpex/Compare and Ignore Sequence #'s is checked.  I tried restricting the
> > columns to 13 through 80, and the results are the same.
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> > Does anyone have any luck using the RDP compare function?  While I'm at it,
> > I wouldn't mind a merge function similar to the PDM merge, that would work
> > with>32K record source members.
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