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psguru wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2019 4:01 pm BTW, still didn't get an answer: why can't you just ignore white space? That's the normal workflow of the application.

huh? I've explicitly answered exactly this question in my previous post.

Matching in EDPro is based on exact equality of lines, after applying all Ignore options (I still don't understand why you can't ignore white space).
When comparing files, KDiff3 first it tries to match lines that are equal in all input files. Only during this step it might ignore white space. The ...

In you case, without ignoring white space, lines 30 and 26 happen to be identical, so diff blocks are separated by them (see https://www.prestoforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2286#p5730 for a brief explanation).


I got your point, but can't agree with it.

If the ExamDiff Pro's difference engine ...

I've uploaded the first screenshot once again
(hope it won't disappear too quickly - bad bad phpBB)

here you go (using [img] tag instead [attachment] for inlines)

I'm using the newest version of EDP (10.x) and it seems the tool has an issue with finding correlating lines in modes "Lines and words" or "Lines and characters", no matter if fuzzy line matching is used or not. Only if "Use Ignores" is activated the correlation works fine (just to be mentioned ...