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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers character-by-character comparison of strings Post 302440018 by Orbix on Sunday 25th of July 2010 11:25:57 PM
Old 07-26-2010
character-by-character comparison of strings
This might be a dummy question, but is there a command in UNIX that compare two strings character-by-character and display the difference?

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Or probably what I'm looking is how to break a string into array, such as below for example:

Code:
STRING="Hello"
STRING[0]='H'
STRING[1]='e'
STRING[2]='l'
STRING[3]='l'
STRING[4]='o'

Last edited by Scott; 07-26-2010 at 03:02 AM.. Reason: Code tags
 

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