Simple Diff Utilities

This is a simple line diff utility function to do simple diff for text. Both for client end and server end(node.js).

This project is licensed under BSD/GPL

How to install

For client end, you just need to download scripts in client/ directory. require that file and use it like normal function.

For server end, you could use npm to install it.
npm install linediff

How to use

Client End

• require the file

  <script src="client/diff.js"></script>

• use it like normal function

  var ret = diff(left, right, options);

Server Side(NodeJs)

• require the file

  var diff = require('linediff');

• save as in client end

More info

prototype = array diff(string left, string right, object options)

• param left, original text
• param right, text to compare with
• param options should be {max: <integer>, ret: <integer>}
  • max distance checking. more for accurate, small for speed, default is 40
  • ret return style, should be one of 0,1,2
    • 0 for return equal lineno
    • 1 for return diff lineno
    • 2 for return html version of the diff result. diff line will be tagged as <span class="diff diff-remove/diff-add"></span>

Sugguestion

You could contact [email protected] for this extension. Or for programming related things, whatever.

This guy currently works in Wiredcraft.com. So you could also get him by [email protected]

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