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Feature request: nestable delimited Grammar Item

Richard Haven — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:41:31 GMT

Please consider an option on the Delimited Grammar Item: Match delimiters

This option would count the depth of the delimiters and only match on a matching end-delimiter.

For example:

function () { // 1

if ()
{ // 2
...
}
}

It just counts start-delimiters and does not match unless the count of end-delimiters is equal.

Flex MXML: two formats in one file

Richard Haven — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:18:01 GMT

(I know it's dying technology, but I'm still working in Flex)

The Flex MXML format is xml except for the section delimited by

// ActionScript here
]]>

One solution is to run a converter that extracts the ActionScript from inside this element. Unfortunately, this would prevent comparing the XML-format part of the file unless a converter could create two files.

It would also prevent editing and copying lines to the ActionScript (unless a post-comparison re-integrator add-in was possible).

Any ideas?

Please add Compare Contents options to Session Options

Richard Haven — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:08:13 GMT

I started a session and when the Compare Contents dialog popped up, I selected Binary comparison and checked Don't Show This Again.

Later, I added rules, but I had to go into Tools | Options | Folder Views | Confirmations to get the dialog to come up so I could select Rules-based comparison.

Please consider adding the Action (comparison type) radio buttons and perhaps even the Show results dialog checkbox to the Sessions Settings | Comparison dialog:

Preserve file attributes / owner in tar.gz

ajax-5 — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:29:21 GMT

Hi,

I rely a lot on Beyond Compare to edit/compare my tar.gz backups for multi versions

My nightmare i that as soon as a file is copied from one side to another its attributes will changes as below:
- if file exists and is overwritten, the destination file will have its attributes set to 444
- if destination file is created, it will have empty attributes and the owner/group are not set

Is it possible to copy permissions when synchromizing tar.gz files?

If not, what format can I use to keep my permissions?

The issue is same while using either the windows version or the linux one

Compare two csv file

nard — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:17:48 GMT

Hi all,
For example I have two csv file:

File1.csv

Code:

"column1","column2","column3"

"cat1","cat2","cat4"

"dog1","dog2","dog3"

File2.csv

Code:

"column1","column2","column3"

"cat1","cat2","cat3"

"dog1","dog2","dog3"

I want find difference and print it in next form:

File1.csv: File2.csv:
column3=cat1 column3=cat3

So my question is does it possible to write using compare scripting?

Thanks in advance.

Edit Session list

wally.randall@comcast.net — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:25:15 GMT

How do I edit the saved session listing? I need to delete sessions and rename others.

How to ignore unimportance via script?

edfu — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:18:14 GMT

We would like compare two folders and export XML-formatted report via script, then we will parse this XML report for getting final result. But we also want to ignore some known difference or look them as unimportant differences.

We create some grammar elements and uncheck them with GUI, please check the attached screen shot, the result match our expectation. Our question is how to do it via script? Or how to load these grammar elements via script?

We had already checked some threads in forum, you recommend that we should load configured session or global default session. Do you have others suggestion except them?

Attached Images

IgnoreUnimportance.gif (163.4 KB)

Null extension

chrisjj — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:11:11 GMT

What filemask matches only filenames having a null extension?

Thanks.

How would I ignore a xml semantics

krispras — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:01:45 GMT

Hello,
I am comparing two xml files and I want to ignore the following xml semantics:

versus

Can anyone list the grammar I would write for it?
Any help would be appreciated!!

Need to know if this software will do what I need.

Cindyono — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:36:43 GMT

I don't usually just send a thread like this on new software, but I've looked at many videos and read quite a bit about this software, but I am really not sure if this software will do what I need. I would really appreciate if someone could help me cut through a lot of this and let me know I am on the right track with this software

I have an old computer, that has had various backups done. Old files transferred in various ways from old computers. I am now running out of space and will be getting a new system, but I do not want to bring over multiple copies of the same files and pictures. I have not been particularly meticulous in what is copied or backed-up where. I have 2 drives on my system that may or may not have duplicates copies and one seagate external backup. There also may be files that are on my secondary drive or seagate external, that are not on my main drive.
Seagate has back up files from this computer and files from a previous computer that might already be on one of the other drives. I want to go through these and identify duplicates and make one source that has one copy of each file. I am not concerned with programs, just document files, pdf's spreadsheets, pictures, music video, etc.

The names of the files will be the same, but not necessarily the file structure. Images may have the same name (because they are numbered) but are not actually the same photo.

I understand this will take multiple running of this program. Do you think this program can do what I need. What's they best way to attack this?

Thanks in advance.

Batch file -> script -> workspace -> session -> html

cguru — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:26:34 GMT

Hi, fairly new user here.

My job as a typical software developer has me diffing several source files against their source control versions and submitting that output as part of the change documentation. So far I've discovered that a "workspace" is a set of multiple "sessions", and I've created a workspace containing all the various diff sessions that make up my software change.

I'm trying to write a batch file to invoke BC3 using a script that loads the previously-saved workspace, runs the multiple diffs against the multiple sessions contained in that workspace, and writes each diff output to a given filename in a given directory (in html format). I understand the command-line parameter to indicate a script is the "@" character, and the name of the workspace can be given too. It's just regular text (source code) files I'm comparing, nothing binary.

My batch file looks like this:

Code:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\BComp.com" @"co123.scr" co123

...where "co123.scr" is my script filename, and the second "co123" is the name of my workspace. This workspace contains three separate pairs of files being compared, stored in three sessions.

My script looks like this:

Code:

text-report layout:side-by-side output-to:"diffreport.html" output-options:html-color file1 file2

My problem is that I don't seem to have a way to make it feed in the pairs of filenames from the workspace "co123" such that each pair is compared and written to separate html output results files. I don't know what to give it for "file1" and "file2" in the script above. Also I'll need separate output html files; the single "differport.html" in my example above won't do.

I'd like to do all this from a single batch file and, if it's possible, from a single invocation of BC3. Some of my change orders involve as many as 12-15 source file changes, so I'd not like to end up with 12-15 batch files per change order scattered all over my desktop. I understand there will be some initial set-up, but after that I'd like to have it as automated as it can get.

(Oh, I'm using Vault, so there's a local copy of the original (Vault) version of each file already on my hard drive. The path to those files is stored with my sessions so it looks like any old two text files being compared.)

I hope that's clear enough. Can you help?

Custom ignore pattern

kstubs — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:15 GMT

I have a source xml document that I frequently work with who's designer for this source xml is contstantly changing an attribute with a patter like name="name1234", where the number portion of the name changes anytime I touch the xml with the designer tool. I've also attached a screenshot.
So, can I create a custom name pattern ignore somehow?

Karl..

Pay per hour to set up Beyond Compare

hmmekic — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:33:59 GMT

Hi,

I would like an expert to write up scripts to get this tool to exactly how I want it.

Like :

mark some numeric differences as unimportant(tolerance checks)
ability to comment difference and save commented version with the underlying files
save results
identify differences from previous runs

Please send me your offers to hmekic@hotmail.com

Thanks

Harry

Harun

Suggestion to enhance Alignwith

donaldshimoda — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:33:21 GMT

Hi,
I find myself using alot Alignwith whith two delphi files, because name procedures dont get aligned automatically.

I think can be great a new popmenu option, alignwith same text(procedure/function,whatever), allowing to find the same declaration in a line at the left with exact same declaration on the rigth, by example.
That is not easy to do know, because align with mode activate a ? simbol and a click on the second window to search it with F3 break align with mode.

Hope i was clear.

Best regards.

Dateiformate und zOS Member von zOS-PO Dateien

sao2l02 — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:33:33 GMT

Hallo,

wir benutzen in unserer Firma BC3 auch in vielf�ltiger Weise zum Vergleich auf dem zOS-Host.
Leider versagt die Formaterkennung aber bei Membern einer PO-Datei, es gibt keine Erweiterung.
Der Name des Members ist auch maximal 8 Zeichen lang.
Das Format ist eher organisatorischer Natur, Member eines Typs sind meistens in einer Datei gespeichert. W�re es m�glich den PO-Dateinamen, abgebildet als Dateipath, auch zu einem Bestandteil des Fileformates zu machen, eventuell wahlweise, oder als Erg�nzung.

Gru�,
Dietrich