How to use google-diff-match-patch C# library?

c# diff patch match
Sharpoint picture Sharpoint · May 19, 2011 · Viewed 11.8k times · Source

I am looking at http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/ and have downloaded the file. When I look at it is 2 files

DiffMatchPatch.cs
DiffMatchPatchTest.cs

When I try to make a new object of DiffMatchPatch.cs I have to pass in some operation and string text.

http://neil.fraser.name/software/diff_match_patch/svn/trunk/demos/demo_diff.html

In the demo they cross out the words that are different and that is what I am trying to achieve.

I am trying to compare 2 blocks of text on the server side finds the differences and send a email to the user with the file block of text to them like the end result is in the demo that I posted above.

So does anyone have a tutorial on how to use the C# version?

Answer

ChrisR picture ChrisR · Aug 13, 2012

For reference, this is really easy:

var dmp = new diff_match_patch();
var diffs = dmp.diff_main(text1, text2);
var html = dmp.diff_prettyHtml(diffs);

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