Compare Two Text Files For Differences

  

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The super easy procedure involves just a single step; paste the two texts in separate boxes and click on the compare button to unfold the differences. The two texts will be shown on the screen side by side along with the differences highlighted. This awesome tool not only highlights the words within the cluster of lines that entail a difference. Compare Text Files and Show Differences using Java. Using the Comparer class, we can also compare any text file. Below is the similar code for comparing two text files in Java. Steps are exactly the same as comparing any other two documents: Start with passing the text file to the Comparer class. Add the second file using the add method.

What is WinMerge?

WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

Screenshot

See the screenshots page for more screenshots.

Features

WinMerge is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. WinMerge can be used as an external differencing/merging tool or as a standalone application.

In addition, WinMerge has many helpful supporting features that make comparing, synchronising, and merging as easy and useful as possible:

General

  • Supports Microsoft Windows XP SP3 or newer
  • Handles Windows, Unix and Mac text file formats
  • Unicode support
  • Tabbed interface

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File Compare

  • 3-way File Comparison New!
  • Visual differencing and merging of text files
  • Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap
  • Highlights differences inside lines
  • Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes
  • Location pane shows map of files compared
  • Moved lines detection
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Folder Compare

  • Regular Expression based file filters allow excluding and including items
  • Fast compare using file sizes and dates
  • Compares one folder or includes all subfolders
  • Can show folder compare results in a tree-style view
  • 3-way Folder Comparison

Image Compare New!

  • Support many types of images
  • Can highlight the differences with blocks
  • Overlaying of the pictures is possible

Table Compare New!

  • Shows CSV/TSV file contents in table format
  • Text can be wrapped for each column

Version Control

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  • Creates patch files (Normal-, Context- and Unified formats)
  • Resolve conflict files

Other

  • Shell Integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions)
  • Archive file support using 7-Zip
  • Plugin support
  • Localizable interface
  • Online manual and installed HTML Help manual

WinMerge 2.16.14 - latest stable version

WinMerge 2.16.14 is the latest stable version, and is recommended for most users.

Project News

  • WinMerge 2.16.4 (stable) released2019-08-02
  • WinMerge 2.16.2 (stable) released2019-04-04
  • WinMerge 2.16.0 (stable) released2018-11-27
  • A sign of life from WinMerge2018-01-29
  • WinMerge 2.14.0 (stable) released2013-02-03

Support

If you need support, look at our support page for more information how you can get it.

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Developers

WinMerge is an open source project, which means that the program is maintained and developed by volunteers.

In addition, WinMerge is translated into a number of different languages. See our information on translating WinMerge into your own language.