How to ignore line breaks or line numbers?

Hi,

I've been searching the forums and I can't find the answer to a question. I am a novice at BC. I have two text files, here are examples:

File 1:

Hey, diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,

File 2:

Hey, diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle,

The text is identical, the only difference is that when I view "Line Numbers" the File 1 has two line numbers

1 Hey, diddle, diddle,
2 The cat and the fiddle,

while File 2 has one line number:

1 Hey, diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle,

However, I would like the above to not be considered differences, but instead identical. The reason is that I may have a single "line number" that is hundreds of words long (because word wrap was enabled on the originating word processor, so a person just kept on typing and typing and their paragraph shows up as a "single" line number). The comparing text file has the identical text, except their word processor broke up the paragraph as separate lines when a line reached the right of the screen.

I only want to compare essential differences like a missing or added characters and so forth, and I do not need to worry about line numbers. (The reason is that now I get large red "differences" in BC, but I don't know if there are any real differences.) Is there anyway to ignore line numbers?

Thanks!