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jackowayed on March 2, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sentdiff: Diff for Writing

I went with a don't-reinvent-the-wheel approach. Anything I did would have at least doubled the time to write the script and probably yielded a diff half as good.

dhotson on March 2, 2009 [–]

This might be worth a look for a decent diff algorithm:

http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/

akkartik on March 2, 2009 | [–]

Also this: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/37690.html

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