compareFiles: Compare textfiles for equality

In berryFunctions: Function Collection Related to Plotting and Hydrology

Compare textfiles for equality

Description

Returns the line numbers where two (text)files differ

Usage

compareFiles(
  file1,
  file2,
  nr = 20,
  startline = 1,
  endline = length(f1),
  quiet = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

file1, file2	Filenames to be read by readLines.
nr	number of results printed. DEFAULT: 20
startline, endline	start and end lines, e.g. to exclude section that is already compared.
quiet	show warnings about file lengths? DEFAULT: FALSE
...	further arguments passed to readLines

Value

Vector of line numbers that differ, result from head(..., nr)

Author(s)

Berry Boessenkool, [e-mail], Aug 2014

See Also

https://text-compare.com/ which I sadly only discovered after writing this function, dupes for finding duplicate lines, combineFiles

Examples

filenames <- system.file(paste0("extdata/versuch",1:2,".txt"), package="berryFunctions")
compareFiles(filenames[1], filenames[2], warn=FALSE)

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