Compare two character strings, character by character — diff_str • cli

Characters are defined by UTF-8 graphemes.

Usage

diff_str(old, new, max_dist = Inf)

Arguments

old: First string, must not be NA.
new: Second string, must not be NA.
max_dist: Maximum distance to consider, or Inf for no limit. If the LCS edit distance is larger than this, then the function throws an error with class "cli_diff_max_dist". (If you specify Inf the real limit is .Machine$integer.max but to reach this the function would have to run a very long time.)

Value

A list that is a cli_diff_str object and also a cli_diff_chr object, see diff_str for the details about its structure.

See also

The diffobj package for a much more comprehensive set of diff-like tools.

Other diff functions in cli: diff_chr()

Examples

str1 <- "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
str2 <- "PREabcdefgMIDDLEnopqrstuvwxyzPOST"
diff_str(str1, str2)
#> PREabcdefghijklmMIDDLEnopqrstuvwxyzPOST