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File comparison is the act of comparing one file's properties with another's.

Use this tag for questions related to comparing the size, content, etc. of two or more files.

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Compare two RTF files using Python

I have two folders with RTF files, the filenames are same in both folders RTF files consists of Header and Footer in every page I have to ignore the Header and Footer part in every page and compare the content of body part I did something like this…
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Matching file contents with patterns/regex (repost after edit)

As part of a repeatable testing approach I'm looking to run a process and then compare its log file with an expected result. Here is a simplified example of the log file produced: 2020-09-01_01:00:00.000 INFO : Incoming record count…
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How to compare the colums (2nd and 3rd) of 2 .csv files based on a condition in matlab or octave

I have a program based on some functionality and the results are displayed on 2 .csv files (file1 and file2) The files consist of same rows and columns, the columns are named as condition, supply1, supply2 I want to read both the files into the…
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How to compare two files that the user has selected?

I need help trying to compare files that a user has selected. I cant seem to figure out exactly how to do it. I have the following code so far. The language is C#, and its a GUI application. At first I tried to assign a bool type variable and…
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File comparison in python and output the difference

I am new at python and need help in comparing two TXT files and outputting their difference. Here is the scenario: These text files contains the structure of a database table. We usually update the database and make structural changes to it, so…
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nodejs how to test big output text

I have project compile js to js. I wrote filename.js and compile to filename.out.js, and check manually filename.out.js, next time when I modify my compiler, I hope the output does not changed, if it changed show the diff. function…
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Perl extract columns from two files based on condition

I have 2 files, say file1 and file2. file1.txt RAC1 GK1 111 RAC2 GK2 222 RAC1 GK3 333 RAC1 GK4 222 RAC2 GK5 111 file2.txt R1,PAAE,222,TESTA,COLA,NO R2,RWWG,111,TESTB,COLM,YES R3,TDAS,444,TESTC,COLZ,NO I am comparing 2 files and trying to extract…
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Sorting list of files in android throwing 'Comparison method violates its general contract!'

It's happening on my Android application & here is the stack trace: Caused by java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract! at java.util.TimSort.mergeHi(TimSort.java:864) at…
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After File compression I lost the Filename extension

I am trying to compress my file using the ZipOutPutStream. I tried below code and got the compressed folder with the file. But when I am extracting the folder using 7Zip, the fileName extension is missing. Also I am unable to extract the folder by…
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How to compare two binary files and return a boolean in Python?

I am reading two files f1 and f2 into my Python code and I need to compare them and get the result as a boolean. def open_file(file_path): with open(input_file, "rb") as f: file = f.read() return file I can however compare them using…
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Is there a way to compare every line in one text file to one line in another text file in C?

For example, I have an index text file that has 400+ English words, and then I have another text file with decrypted text on each line. I want to check each English word in my index file with each line of my decrypted text file (so checking 400+…
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awk to compare multiple columns in 2 files

I would like to compare multiple columns from 2 files and NOT print lines matching my criteria. An example of this would be: file1 apple green 4 orange red 5 apple yellow 6 apple yellow 8 grape green 5 file2 apple yellow 7 grape green…
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Visual Basic Compare Files Task

I currently have this code that will compare between two files only if each file has one column: Const ForReading = 1 Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFile1 = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Users\Downloads\Define…
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Adding the data present in only file1 while comparing

Consider I have two excel file, compare and merging two file and genarating new report, While doing in programatically - Few data present in file 1 and that data not present in file2 so How to add the data present in only file1? If…
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Formatted text file comparison in python

I have two .txt files. How would I compare them, find and print the difference(s) in a new file? My files are like: set FDN : "NetworkElement=RNC23,CmNodeHeartbeatSupervision=1" active : true set FDN :…
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