I use the regular expression:
%%CreationDate:\s+\w{3}\s+\w{3}\s+\d{1,2} \d{1,2}:\d{1,2}:\d{1,2}\s+\d{4}
and I have it set to ignore strings with match. However, this string gets through every time:
This is what my file looks like:
==================================
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Title: Something here
%%Creator: Some Company
%%CreationDate: Thu May 24 08:42:15 2007
==================================
The creation date always ends up in the report. Am I missing something here? I have all of the "Ignore blanks" unchecked. The only thing checked in the entire comparison section of options is "Use Regular Expressions" and "Find moved sections". Min string length to match is set to 0. In the Line comparison sec tion, use line compare is checked. Min chars to match is set to 3. Min % of line to match is set to 30 and use adaptive comparison is checked.
Thank you for your responses!
Regular Expression problem
That is what I have been doing for some of them, however this expression does not always appear on the beginning of the line in all of my files, and sometimes I need information that is on the right side of it. I'll see if I can locate an example of these.
I appreciate your very fast replies, I figured I wouldn't see a response for a number of days when I posted this.
I appreciate your very fast replies, I figured I wouldn't see a response for a number of days when I posted this.
After testing
After some testing, I figured out what is wrong. I would consider it a bug, or at least a miswording. When you go into the regular expressions section of your options, then set up a regular expression, you get to choose the file types that you wish for the regular expression to work on. If you choose "All files", then edit the name of the two files you are comparing by remove the extensions you will find that regex will not parse on those files. You must specify a specify a special listing and fill it with "* *.*" to get it to work properly on files without extensions.
You can test this by changing the date in the listing i gave you earlier in one file, then naming the file "test" and the other one "test.txt" and it will say that the date is different.
Thanks!
You can test this by changing the date in the listing i gave you earlier in one file, then naming the file "test" and the other one "test.txt" and it will say that the date is different.
Thanks!
I have uploaded a fix in latest beta: http://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp4b.zip