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Answer» Hello all, I did do a controlled test to see what returned. The real data return seems different and I don't understand the result. So, I'm not understanding what FC is supposed to return when one line differs. What do you mean "if one line differs"? Do you mean 2 files which have exactly the same number of characters, in the same number of lines, but one line is different in one of the files? At the beginning, in the middle, or at the end? Or two one-line files, each different from the other? Or what? The results below seem clear enough to me. Text1.txt Code: [Select]The prime minister, in Brussels for an EU summit where Greece's debt crisis is among items on the agenda, SAID: "Britain is out of the euro - I think we will stay out of the euro and certainly as long as I am doing this job there is no prospect of Britain even contemplating JOINING the euro." The Greek parliament has to pass fresh austerity measures next week before the country can gain vital bail-out funds to prevent it defaulting on its loan payments, due in mid-July. Mr Blair told BBC One's Politics Show, in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday, he had backed the idea of Britain joining the euro when he came to power - but had accepted that the conditions had to be right. Text2.txt - First line: lower case p changed to upper case. Code: [Select]The Prime minister, in Brussels for an EU summit where Greece's debt crisis is among items on the agenda, said: "Britain is out of the euro - I think we will stay out of the euro and certainly as long as I am doing this job there is no prospect of Britain even contemplating joining the euro." The Greek parliament has to pass fresh austerity measures next week before the country can gain vital bail-out funds to prevent it defaulting on its loan payments, due in mid-July. Mr Blair told BBC One's Politics Show, in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday, he had backed the idea of Britain joining the euro when he came to power - but had accepted that the conditions had to be right. Text3.txt - 7th line: July changed to july Code: [Select]The prime minister, in Brussels for an EU summit where Greece's debt crisis is among items on the agenda, said: "Britain is out of the euro - I think we will stay out of the euro and certainly as long as I am doing this job there is no prospect of Britain even contemplating joining the euro." The Greek parliament has to pass fresh austerity measures next week before the country can gain vital bail-out funds to prevent it defaulting on its loan payments, due in mid-july. Mr Blair told BBC One's Politics Show, in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday, he had backed the idea of Britain joining the euro when he came to power - but had accepted that the conditions had to be right. Text4.txt - Last line: had changed to Had Code: [Select]The prime minister, in Brussels for an EU summit where Greece's debt crisis is among items on the agenda, said: "Britain is out of the euro - I think we will stay out of the euro and certainly as long as I am doing this job there is no prospect of Britain even contemplating joining the euro." The Greek parliament has to pass fresh austerity measures next week before the country can gain vital bail-out funds to prevent it defaulting on its loan payments, due in mid-July. Mr Blair told BBC One's Politics Show, in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday, he had backed the idea of Britain joining the euro when he came to power - but Had accepted that the conditions had to be right. Code: [Select]C:\>fc Text1.txt Text2.txt Comparing files Text1.txt and TEXT2.TXT ***** Text1.txt The prime minister, in Brussels for an EU summit where Greece's debt crisis is among items on the agenda, said: "Britain is out of the euro - I think we will ***** TEXT2.TXT The Prime minister, in Brussels for an EU summit where Greece's debt crisis is among items on the agenda, said: "Britain is out of the euro - I think we will ***** C:\>fc Text1.txt Text3.txt Comparing files Text1.txt and TEXT3.TXT ***** Text1.txt country can gain vital bail-out funds to prevent it defaulting on its loan payments, due in mid-July. Mr Blair told BBC One's Politics Show, in an interview to be broadcast on ***** TEXT3.TXT country can gain vital bail-out funds to prevent it defaulting on its loan payments, due in mid-july. Mr Blair told BBC One's Politics Show, in an interview to be broadcast on ***** C:\>fc Text1.txt Text4.txt Comparing files Text1.txt and TEXT4.TXT ***** Text1.txt Sunday, he had backed the idea of Britain joining the euro when he came to power - but had accepted that the conditions had to be right. ***** TEXT4.TXT Sunday, he had backed the idea of Britain joining the euro when he came to power - but Had accepted that the conditions had to be right. ***** This is in the middle of the file. The two files differ: Nicole and NICOL Line 388 shows only the last 8 characters of the 136-char line above Line 390 shows the last 32 chars of the end of line 389 (I removed some spaces from its 160 chars for viewing) 388: 70126 F 389: CN 00003336163300276801 SMITH, NICOLE 20110510 007076730 319.45 390: F+000000000+000000000 So, it looks like lines are limited to 128 characters. The line above shows the tail end after the first 128. The line below shows the overflow beyond 128 chars of the line that differs. Rings a bell. It's been some time since I've used this but I do look at DOS text files well exceeding 128 character line lengths. Now I know what I'm looking at! Could not compute yesterday ; ) Thanks. |
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