Generating HTML only when differences exist

[Jeannot]

Hello,


Could you, please, help me ?

Indeed, I use the following script in order to compare files:

text-report layout:side-by-side &
options:ignore-unimportant,display-context &
output-to:%3 output-options:html-color %1 %2

By calling it like this

BCompare.exe @"compare_file_script.txt" "file1.txt" "file2.txt" "REPORT.html"

I would like to know if it is possible to not generate the report if the files are identic ?

Thanks in advance

Best Regards

Jeannot

[Aaron]

Hello,

It is not possible using only BCScript. A bcompare.exe "@script.txt" will always generate the report.

You could create a wrapper around this script call using another scripting language (like a bat file) to check the comparison of the two files, and then only call the BCScript if the files are different.

Within the overall script file, you can setup a call to:
bcomp.com /qc "file1.txt" "file2.txt"

which would return an ErrorLevel. Check this error level and skip the script call if it returns 1 or 2. You can see a full list of ErrorLevel values in our Help file -> Command Line Reference chapter, at the very bottom of the chapter.

[Jeannot]

Hello,

thanks for you answer !!!

Best regards

jeannot