String/ShowDiff version 0.02
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NAME

String::ShowDiff - Perl extension to help visualize differences between strings

SYNOPSIS

  use String::ShowDiff qw/ansi_colored_diff/;
  print ansi_colored_diff("abcehjlmnp", "bcdefjklmrst");

  # or a bit more detailed:
  my %options = ('u' => 'reset',
                 '+' => 'on_green',
		         '-' => 'on_red');
  print ansi_colored_diff($oldstring, $newstring, \%options);

DESCRIPTION

This module is a wrapper around the diff algorithm from the module
Algorithm::Diff. It's job is to simplify a visualization of the differences of each strings.

Compared to the many other Diff modules,
the output is neither in diff-style nor are the recognised differences on line or word boundaries,
they are at character level.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

	Algorithm::Diff
	Term::ANSIColor
	Test::More

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Put the correct copyright and licence information here.

Copyright (C) 2003 Janek Schleicher

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself. 

