File::Compare3perl
Compare files or filehandles
Usage
use File::Compare;if (compare("file1", "file2") == 0) {print "They're equal\n";}
Overview
The "File::Compare::compare" function compares the contents of two sources, each of which can be a file or a file handle. It is exported from "File::Compare" by default.
"File::Compare::cmp" is a synonym for "File::Compare::compare". It is exported from "File::Compare" only by request.
"File::Compare::compare_text" does a line by line comparison of the two files. It stops as soon as a difference is detected. compare_text() accepts an optional third argument: This must be a CODE reference to a line comparison function, which returns 0 when both lines are considered equal. For example:
compare_text($file1, $file2)is basically equivalent to
compare_text($file1, $file2, sub {$_[0] ne $_[1]} )Return
"File::Compare::compare" and its sibling functions return 0 if the files are equal, 1 if the files are unequal, or -1 if an error was encountered.
Releases
13 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 12 times.