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JeremyNicoll · 18 Jul 2025, 06:09 PM

I had another idea; it still involves working with lists of filenames which need manipulated before comparison.

IF BC offers the facility (for programmers) to compare two program listings, looking only at the code but not comments on each line, you could present each list of filenames

C:this\that\other\such_and_such_a file.eml

as eg

C:this\that\other\suc /* h_and_such_a file.eml */

& give the file lists the ".c" (or whatever) extension so that BC applies language-specific parsing of the contents.

In other words you proxy the absolute column number that matters to you with some other feature that BC /is/ capable of using as a data of-interest / not of interest delimiter.

18 Jul 2025, 06:09 PM	#3
JeremyNicoll Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Scotland Posts: 859	I had another idea; it still involves working with lists of filenames which need manipulated before comparison. IF BC offers the facility (for programmers) to compare two program listings, looking only at the code but not comments on each line, you could present each list of filenames C:this\that\other\such_and_such_a file.eml as eg C:this\that\other\suc /* h_and_such_a file.eml */ & give the file lists the ".c" (or whatever) extension so that BC applies language-specific parsing of the contents. In other words you proxy the absolute column number that matters to you with some other feature that BC /is/ capable of using as a data of-interest / not of interest delimiter.