Comparing whitespaces inside strings

[IAWAdrianParker]

I had turned off whitespace comparison because of the number of lines it found where it began or ended with differing whitespaces. The problem is that it also ignores lines such as myfunc("Co Parent") vs myfunc("CoParent").

Is there a way around this as it's tedious to have to bypass all of the ones I don't care about.

[sdottaka]

Have you tried the Whitespaces → Ignore change option?

If this doesn't work, defining Substitution filters like the one below might get you the results you expect.

"^\s+" → ""
"\s+$" → ""

[IAWAdrianParker]

Thank you for replying.. but I have found something odd.

I added the two compare filters to strip leading and trailing white space characters.

With whitespace compare or ignore change, I get

The problem I've found is that the option "ignore carriage return differences" affects leading spaces too, if I uncheck that option then the comparison works correctly

At this point, the whitespace compare option doesn't seem to do anything different.

[sdottaka]

I have not been able to reproduce this problem.
Could you please attach those two files and the file that appears when you click on the Help → Configuration menu item?

[IAWAdrianParker]

Sure.

configuration.txt
f2.txt
f1.txt

[sdottaka]

Thank you for attaching the files. I was able to reproduce the issue with these files. I will try to fix it later.

[sdottaka]

The issue has been fixed in commit 7e8c711

[IAWAdrianParker]

Thank you, the fix looks to work well.