Gossamer Forum: General: Perl Programming: diff

Hi,

I'm trying to write some code, which will do a direct comparison of 2 files.

I'm using:

Code:
diff --line-format='%3dn %L' file1.html file2.html

..this prints out like:

Code:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl 
# ================================================================== 
# Bla Bla 
# Bla Bla Changed This 
################################################ 
Something else

(i.e repeats lines that have changed)

...now, this is good - BUT, what I need to do, is try and color code the bits that were taken out (and the bits that were not). i.e make bits red that were taken out - and green for bits that were added. Is there any way to combine the code I have above, and the -u (so it shows + and - or > and < next to lines that were modified)

Anyone got any suggestions? :/

i.e I need the output something like:

Code:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl 
# ================================================================== 
# Bla Bla
# Bla Bla Changed This
################################################ 
Something else

TIA for any suggestions. I've come to a bit of a roadblock with this :(

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

diff - formatting nicely