String/ShowDiff version 0.01 ============================ NAME String::ShowDiff - Perl extension to help visualize differences between strings SYNOPSIS use String::ShowDiff qw/ansi_colored_diff/; print ansi_colored_diff("abcehjlmnp", "bcdefjklmrst"); # or a bit more detailed: my %options = ('u' => 'reset', '+' => 'on_green', '-' => 'on_red'); print ansi_colored_diff($oldstring, $newstring, \%options); DESCRIPTION This module is a wrapper around the diff algorithm from the module Algorithm::Diff. It's job is to simplify a visualization of the differences of each strings. Compared to the many other Diff modules, the output is neither in diff-style nor are the recognised differences on line or word boundaries, they are at character level. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Algorithm::Diff Term::ANSIColor Test::More COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Put the correct copyright and licence information here. Copyright (C) 2003 Janek Schleicher This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.