It comes in standard and professional editions, and for people working on both Windows and macOS, it's good to know that a single license is valid for both platforms. It also lets you compare office documents (like MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, or ODF). Just like Beyond Compare, Araxis Merge supports more than just text and image files. The 'Pro' version also includes a solid three-way merge. It goes well beyond (pun intended) diffing simple text and also allows comparing PDF, Excel and image files. The Beyond Compare team makes a fine diff tool for Windows (as well as macOS and Linux, by the way). Apart from diffing files, Meld also supports comparison of folders.

It supports three-way comparing and merging and lets you edit files directly from the comparison view. everything before the equal sign) and then compare them based on another (everything after the equal sign).Being free and open source, Meld is a very popular tool on Windows (it's also available for Linux). using regular expressions, but these simply ignore the remainder of the line and I can't match lines up based on one pattern (i.e. I even found some tools where matching text can be restricted e.g. Typically existing tools will show differences in the beginning of the line before the equal sign (if most of the text after the equal sign matches), they will struggle with re-ordered lines (either show it all as changed or match some lines and show the remaining as deleted in one place and then added in another). I can't find any tool that can handle this. The order of lines within a section (sections are indicated by square brackets) does not matter and should be ignored. The tool should match lines based on the string before the equal sign, then show differences in everything else after the equal sign. ), but none of the tools I tried can handle. There are plenty of file comparison tools (WinDiff, Beyond Compare, CompareIt, WinMerge. ini files, typically used as settings files. I'm looking for a file comparison utility specifically for.

Better than winmerge