Search found 3 matches

by mmorrell
Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:44 pm
Forum: Compare It: Bug reports
Topic: Problem with "Use columns range"
Replies: 3
Views: 14213

Thanks for your quick reply. I believe that we figured out what is wrong. Our records are not the same exact length. Compare It is smart enough not to flag every byte after the field that is not the same legth and correctly does not show differences for the data after the field that is not the same ...
by mmorrell
Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:25 pm
Forum: Compare It: Bug reports
Topic: Comparing delmited text files?
Replies: 1
Views: 11595

Comparing delmited text files?

Does Compare It have the ability to compare two flat, delmited files? Similar to a comma delmited files, we have files delimited by "\" characters. These do not compare well because records may not be the same length if only one field is different. We do not need to compare some fields and could car...
by mmorrell
Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:14 pm
Forum: Compare It: Bug reports
Topic: Problem with "Use columns range"
Replies: 3
Views: 14213

Problem with "Use columns range"

I'm evaluating this software for purchase. I am having some issues comparing flat text files and skipping certain byte ranges or columns. I've got 100 byte records and I want to ignore any differences found in positions 6-12. So under the Use columns range field I type in "1-5, 13-100” But some file...