perl5 module to find the character, line, and line position of the first difference in two strings, written in perlxs/C for speed
String::DiffLine defines a C/perlxs function "diffline" which finds the character position, line number, and line character position of the first difference in two strings quickly. See POD documentation for more details
To install this module use the cpan perl installer script: cpan String::Diffline
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the CPAN perl module: perl -MCPAN -e 'install(q{String::DiffLine})'
or if you like the hard way:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test # check for absence of 'not ok' lines
make install
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