I use UltraCompare a lot and love it.

Alan

Alan Churchill Savian www.savian.net

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard A. DeVenezia Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:03 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Has anyone got a file compare utility written in sas?

On Sep 30, 5:25 am, RolandRB <rolandbe...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone got a file compare utility written in sas? It's not often I > ask for such a utlity (or macros) since I have collected so many > macros but such a utility would be useful for validation work on my > sas macros. This is for "files" and not datasets. Input lengths will > need to go to maximum line size (256) but if it is not restricted to > this then so much the better.

Personally use Beyond Compare (http://www.scootersoftware.com/) There are numerous others including one by IDM (ultraedit) and an open source one (http://www.winmerge.org/)

You should also consider using Tortoise SVN (Subversion) to manage your source code development. It will also perform delta comparisons between versions. Use Lex Jansens site (http://www.lexjansen.com/ sugi) to search for papers about CVS or SVN

- Richard A. DeVenezia http://www.devenezia.com