You can now install the “Compare Plugin” that allows you to compare files. Once the plugin admin is installed, you can do a lot of things, like adding new plugins, updating plugins and more stuffs. This step will ensure plugin manager is installed during your installation. When choosing components during installation you should select “Custom” from the list and the check the box “Plugins Admin”. Before installing any plugin, you need to adjust some settings first, or I can say right from installation you need add some components to Notepad++. The plugin admin is where you get access to a lot of plugins that will help you extend the functionality of Notepad++. This plugin will show you visually the difference between the two files. If you want to compare Notepad++ files, you’ll need the Notepad++ compare plugin. Notepad++ compare files and text The Basics – Understanding Plugin Admin Notepad++
If you have two files that are very similar and want to compare the minor difference between the two, you can do that with Notepad++. In this post we’ll share how to compare files and text with Notepad++. Notepad++ shows the hierarchy relationships and has the ability to collapse and expand at any level.įor my purposes, Notepad++ beats the heck out of Notepad and IE.When you take the compare file plugin as an example, it allows users to sort out differences between two files and highlight the difference using colored text or some styling options that are available. Notepad++ also contains features for finding and replacing values for files in a given folder, but I haven’t used that.Īdditionally, maneuvering within the XML file easy. (Note: you’ll probably have to parse out the line number to make the sort work exactly right, but Excel’s Data>Text to Columns option makes that really easy.) The elements of your pairs are now adjacent to each other, and you can manipulate away in Excel to compare, view, or filter the data as you wish. Since search results start with “Line 9”, where 9 is the line number in the file, you can sort on the results to get them in line number order. There’s another neat trick you can do if you’re interested in a couple of tags which are close together, and you’re looking for certain pairs of information. Search on each tag, then copy all results to Excel. I can even copy the search results from the split screen to a new file, and then search within the search results. I can scan the results and double click on the one I’m interested in to jump to that line in the file. It lets me search a document, or all open documents, for a given value.
Right now, my business analyst work is with data that is stored in an XML file. I’m only interested in about 10% of the tags in the XML and I often need to scan the entire file for a value in a given tag.
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