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Using Compare It!
Comparing files
Merging Files
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File Filters
Comparison
Advanced Comparison
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Adding Shortcuts to External Applications
Adaptive comparison
Auto Backup
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Configuration File
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Custom Syntax Files
Defining Column Ranges
Enhanced Open File
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Folders comparison
Ignore Difference
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Merged Report
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Partial matching
Profiles
Result File Support
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Unicode Support
Using Compare It! with File Manager
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Using Regular Expressions
Using RegExps substrings
Word files comparison
Excel files comparison
Other file formats support
Zip File Support
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Defining Column Ranges File Open Dialog

Compare It! can work with specified columns of text lines.

Here are some simple examples:

1-5 compare only first 5 characters
5-15 compare only 10 characters starting from 5-th.
15+ compare only the rest of the line starting from character 15 (ignore first 14 characters )

If necessary, you can use a more advanced approach. For example, defining a column range of 2-4,6,8+ will convert the string 1234567890 to 2346890 for comparison.

See Also

Options Dialog Box: Comparison


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