Windows 10: How to compare files with different line endings

I have two versions of a software package. These are php files so normally I compare them with the directory compare function of Winmerge. However, in this case on of the two has Windows line endings crlf and the other unix lf. So Winmerge concludes that every line is different. As far as I can see there is no option to correct this.


So my question is whether anyone knows some software that can handle this.

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I want to add a comma at the end of every line

• Click anywhere in the first line.
• Press the End button on your keyboard.
• Press the comma button on your keyboard.
• Press the downward pointing arrow on your keyboard.
• Press the End button on your keyboard.
• Press the comma button on your keyboard.
• Repeat steps 4 - 6 over and over until you reach the last line.

If adding a comma at the end of a line causes the line to wrap, adjust the number of words in the line.

 

Compare a text file containing file names with files in a folder

Hi, can only think you'd need to create a simple script.

First create a file containing a textual representation of just the file names in the folder.
(That's one line using a DIR command, for example).

Then use e.g.
Diff Checker

Just an idea..

There are many option for comparing text files:
How To Compare Two Text Files Using Notepad++
Text Compare! - An online diff tool that can find the difference between two texts
WinMerge - You will see the difference…


That might work if the two files contain ordered lists, one item per line.

If the files are for some reason radically different in format and layout, you would need to create your own search and compare script.

 

Line by line diff (file comparison) with HTML/RTF export

Hello everyone

Can anyone recommend a program that can compare two text files, line by line, and output the difference (preferably character differences) to a format that can be opened in MS Word, e.g. DOC, RTF or HTML? I need a tool that will compare each line from file 1 with the same line from file 2. The differences should be highlighted or should be displayed as strike-through/underline.

I have WinMerge on my computer, but WinMerge is trying to be clever and assumes that lines were deleted in the files, so at some point it no longer compares line n in the one file with line n in the other file.

There are some online tools that actually work quite well, but I can only view the results on line (can't save it).

I know I can do "compare documents" in MS Word, but even MS Word sometimes tries to be clever and starts comparing the wrong lines with each other if it hits a patch of seemingly large differences in the middle of the file. I know that if I use "compare documents" in MS Word after converting the text to a table, the accuracy improves, but it still does that be-too-clever thing.

Thanks
Samuel

PS. 99% of the lines in my files have differences, ranging from one character all the way to the entire line.