Top "Comparison" questions

Questions about data comparison and efficient ways to accomplish it.

Haskell, Lisp, and verbosity

For those of you experienced in both Haskell and some flavor of Lisp, I'm curious how "pleasant" (to use a …

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Numeric comparison difficulty in R

I'm trying to compare two numbers in R as a part of a if-statement condition: (a-b) >= 0.5 In this particular …

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Spring vs Jboss

What are the advantages and disadvantages for Spring vs. Jboss for an enterprise web application.

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How to compare varbinary in where clause in SQL Server

I want to compare varbinary type with byte array. I have tried so far: DECLARE @data AS NVARCHAR(MAX)='4283…

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Copy only difference (kdiff, winmerge, any diff like tool)

Is there possibility of copy ONLY difference of two files? Like in winmerge, but, I can't find this option Just …

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Does .Value = .Value act similar to Evaluate() function in VBA?

Consider the following snippet. It writes the same formula to two cells A1 and A2 Sub Main() With Range("A1") .…

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Prestashop compared to Zen-Cart and osCommerce

I'm considering Prestashop for a new project. It seems to be younger than Zen-Cart and osCommerce. Since I just found …

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MATLAB: comparison of cell arrays of string

I have two cell arrays of strings, and I want to check if they contain the same strings (they do …

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Compare version numbers in Objective-C

I am writing an application that receives data with items and version numbers. The numbers are formatted like "1.0.1" or "1.2.5". How …

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Comparing dates to check for old files

I want to check if a file is older than a certain amount of time (e.g. 2 days). I managed …

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