3 use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT $MYPKG);
13 @EXPORT = qw(&testcmp);
14 $MYPKG = eval { (caller)[0] };
16 ##--------------------------------------------------------------------------
20 testcmp -- compare two files line-by-line
24 $is_diff = testcmp($file1, $file2);
28 $is_diff = testcmp({-cmplines => \&mycmp}, $file1, $file2);
32 Compare two text files line-by-line and return 0 if they are the
33 same, 1 if they differ. Each of $file1 and $file2 may be a filenames,
34 or a filehandles (in which case it must already be open for reading).
36 If the first argument is a hashref, then the B<-cmplines> key in the
37 hash may have a subroutine reference as its corresponding value.
38 The referenced user-defined subroutine should be a line-comparator
39 function that takes two pre-chomped text-lines as its arguments
40 (the first is from $file1 and the second is from $file2). It should
41 return 0 if it considers the two lines equivalent, and non-zero
46 ##--------------------------------------------------------------------------
48 sub testcmp( $ $ ; $) {
49 my %opts = ref($_[0]) eq 'HASH' ? %{shift()} : ();
50 my ($file1, $file2) = @_;
51 my ($fh1, $fh2) = ($file1, $file2);
53 $fh1 = FileHandle->new($file1, "r") or die "Can't open $file1: $!";
56 $fh2 = FileHandle->new($file2, "r") or die "Can't open $file2: $!";
59 my $cmplines = $opts{'-cmplines'} || undef;
60 my ($f1text, $f2text) = ("", "");
61 my ($line, $diffs) = (0, 0);
63 while ( defined($f1text) and defined($f2text) ) {
64 defined($f1text = <$fh1>) and chomp($f1text);
65 defined($f2text = <$fh2>) and chomp($f2text);
67 last unless ( defined($f1text) and defined($f2text) );
68 $diffs = (ref $cmplines) ? &$cmplines($f1text, $f2text)
69 : ($f1text ne $f2text);
72 close($fh1) unless (ref $file1);
73 close($fh2) unless (ref $file2);
75 $diffs = 1 if (defined($f1text) or defined($f2text));
76 if ( defined($f1text) and defined($f2text) ) {
77 ## these two lines must be different
78 warn "$file1 and $file2 differ at line $line\n";
80 elsif (defined($f1text) and (! defined($f1text))) {
81 ## file1 must be shorter
82 warn "$file1 is shorter than $file2\n";
84 elsif (defined $f2text) {
85 ## file2 must be longer
86 warn "$file1 is shorter than $file2\n";