Software recommendation - comparing text

Factual Questions
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I’m wondering if anyone uses any freeware software that will compare two text files, ignoring white space?

I have been working on a web page, following instructions from a book, and can not for the life of me get a particular e-mail form to work. However, when I took the example from the website and cut out the extras to make it match what I have in my file, the website demo is functioning. Clearly I’m missing something, but I think I’ve been looking at it for too long; the only difference I can see now between the two of them (I’ve even got everything on the same line numbers) are my indents and spaces.

I’d love to be able to compare them with something that will show me the differences, excluding those indenting differences.

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looks like it can do what you want.

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The e-mail protocol uses the end of line characters as special delimiters. You need to make sure that you are using or not using \r and
as the e-mail protocol asks.

Winmerge is a great tool, but it’s for comparing textual differences, not white space differences. It will probably detect the differences, but not in a way that tells you why it is relevant.

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This SourceGear | DiffMerge is a great freee developer tool for comparing text files. It gets a lotof use at our shop.

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Second this. Powerful and simple.

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Beyond Compare. It’s beyond compare.

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+1

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Thanks all!

LSLGuy, I used that and found in seconds what my problem was. Thanks for the tip!