I'm looking for a free library that can take two strings and produce a diff much like the diff's you see on edit revisions here on SO.
I'm hoping one exists, as this is a trivial part of an app I'm working on and I'd hate to waste time reinventing the wheel.
Any suggestions?
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Surprisingly, i found one implementation which could give you the same functionality as SO edits. codeproject I am going to use it as well and hope this helps other people too.
You can do an MD5 hash of both files to determine if they are identical. The SO-style revision history would be a bit more intensive.
Check out the source code for this diff tool, which might get you going in the right direction.
http://dotnet.jku.at/applications/Diff/Src.aspx