Character based comparison

[goroggy]

Hi, his is a wonder control.
However, I need character differences, how to do that?
Thanks.

[VPKSoft]

Hi, this seems to be matching word boundaries (the DiffPlex library) by default:

I assume you mean the side-by-side model which is created by the SideBySideDiffBuilder class.

I'll have to look into character diff once I have the time, maybe in the coming weekend...

[goroggy]

Thanks, that would be fine. Yes, I mean the sideBySide model.

[goroggy]

Diff has CreateCharacterDiffs but SideBySideDiffBuilder seems not to invoke it (you cannot pass a characterChunker).
I modified SideBySideDiffBuilder so that it takes CharacterChunker.Instance in place of WordChunker.Instance and it works:

However I don't want to mess the code so please it would be nice if you could implement it.

Btw the Difflpex PR 50 code examples say SideBySideBuilder instead of SideBySideDiffBuilder.

[VPKSoft]

Hi, The NuGet for the character based diff/comparison is now added to the package, please let me know if there are any bugs 🤔
New properties:

With the CharacterComparison property set:

With both the CharacterComparison and the CharacterComparisonMarkAddRemove properties set:

TODO::Different project for the unofficial.ScintillaNET package.

[goroggy]

Thanks, Petteri, this is what I call fast service. Will be back with experience.

[goroggy]

Sorry, I have this error when the number of lines are not the same (and in my case it happens often)
Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.
Parameter name: startIndex
at System.String.Insert(Int32 startIndex, String value)
at ScintillaDiff.ScintillaDiffControl.SpanLeftRightChars(DiffResult diffResult, Int32 line, String oldLine, String newLine, List`1& charChangedList)
at ScintillaDiff.ScintillaDiffControl.DiffTextsSideBySide()
at ScintillaDiff.ScintillaDiffControl.set_TextRight(String value)

[VPKSoft]

Alright, need to look for a fix for that... perhaps too little test material was used 🙄

[VPKSoft]

Hi, the issue should be fixed now. Removing one +1 should do the job 😅

Fixed string.Insert error in case the CharacterComparisonMarkAddRemove property was set to true and a zero-length line occurred within the text.

[goroggy]

Thanks, the error disappeared. I think I will let the user choose between word based and character based comparisons. When the lines themselves do not much, character-based looks rather weird.