Patent ID: 7721199
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for comparing a plurality of sources, comprising: a programmable processor; a storage medium; a comparison program residing in the storage medium; a compression program residing in the storage medium; an old file residing in the storage medium; a new file residing in the storage medium; wherein the compression program causes the processor to: wherein the comparison program causes the processor to: when a line of source data of length L in the new file does not match a line of source code of length L in the old file, identify the lines of source data in the new file as lines of source code that have been changed, added or deleted; wherein the first plurality of control words and the second plurality of control words determine an order of navigation through the lines of source code in the new file compressed string and the old file compressed string; and wherein the compression program creates the new file compressed string and the old file compressed string by removing all blank spaces except for code within quotation marks from all lines in the old file and the new file.