Ignore footer in BC2

Yes, it is possible to ignore differences in the BC2 File Viewer.

With the files open in the File Viewer, select "Tools > Edit Current Rules".
Go to the Importance tab.

In the Unimportant Text section, check a difference to ignore, or click New to define ignored text with delimiters, columns, or regular expressions.

Back in the main File Viewer window, toggling "View > Ignore Unimportant Differences" will show or hide the differences you marked to ignore.

For more details, see the "Rules > File Importance Rules" section of Beyond
Compare's help file.

The unimportant text settings will also be used for Rules-based comparison criteria (set in "Session > Comparison Control") in the Folder Viewer.

Thanks Chris

I am struggling with this though as you can select to ignore a header but not a footer.
The problem I have is that the data is not the same on each report as it is a date and time, so there is no hard and fast rule I can apply to say ignore text that starts with "Date:" as there is no label.
Literally all I get is this...

2-JUL-09 10:11:12

Is there a way I can ignore footer text that is not constant?

Hello,

You can create a new Unimportant element that matches on the text specifically using regular expressions:
^\s*\d{1,2}-\w{3}-\d{2}\s\d\d:\d\d:\d\d\s*$

The above matches on:
^ beginning of line
\s* optional whitespace
\d{1,2} 1 or 2 digits
- dash
\w{3} 3 alphanumeric characters
-dash
\d{2} 2 digits
\s whitespace
\d\d:\d\d:\d\d 2digits:2digits:2digits
\s*$ optional whitespace until end of line.

I shall give that a try - thanks for your help.