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Re: Introducing ARFE



On Tue 11 Aug 2015 at 15:54:44 -0500, David Young wrote:
> DT reads two inputs and finds a longest common subsequence (LCS) of the
> inputs where numbers are "wild": one number, consisting of an optional
> sign followed by one or more decimal digits, can match any other.

That reminds me of "spiff", the "spiffy diff". Once upon a time posted
to comp.sources.unix or something... it could wildcard integers and
floats and various other configurable things. It never got popular for
some reason.

-Olaf.
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___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for
\X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl    -- 'this bath is too hot.'

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