07-28-2008
Or in simpler terms, historically, $* was what they had originally, but it didn't work right for arguments containing embedded whitespace, and so they had to invent "$@" for passing through quoted arguments correctly.
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text::diff::table
Text::Diff::Table(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::Diff::Table(3)
NAME
Text::Diff::Table - Text::Diff plugin to generate "table" format output
SYNOPSIS
use Text::Diff;
diff @a, $b { STYLE => "Table" };
DESCRIPTION
This is a plugin output formatter for Text::Diff that generates "table" style diffs:
+--+----------------------------------+--+------------------------------+
| |../Test-Differences-0.2/MANIFEST | |../Test-Differences/MANIFEST |
| |Thu Dec 13 15:38:49 2001 | |Sat Dec 15 02:09:44 2001 |
+--+----------------------------------+--+------------------------------+
| | * 1|Changes *
| 1|Differences.pm | 2|Differences.pm |
| 2|MANIFEST | 3|MANIFEST |
| | * 4|MANIFEST.SKIP *
| 3|Makefile.PL | 5|Makefile.PL |
| | * 6|t/00escape.t *
| 4|t/00flatten.t | 7|t/00flatten.t |
| 5|t/01text_vs_data.t | 8|t/01text_vs_data.t |
| 6|t/10test.t | 9|t/10test.t |
+--+----------------------------------+--+------------------------------+
This format also goes to some pains to highlight "invisible" characters on differing elements by selectively escaping whitespace. Each
element is split in to three segments (leading whitespace, body, trailing whitespace). If whitespace differs in a segement, that segment
is whitespace escaped.
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+--+--------------------------+--------------------------+
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*
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*
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