Get source and target text from files

GroupDocs.Comparison allows to getting source and target texts of specific changes in result file.

The following are the steps to get a list of changed source and target texts:

  • Instantiate Comparer object with source document path or stream;
  • Call Add method and specify target document path or stream;
  • Call Compare method;
  • Call GetChanges method.

The following code example demonstrates how to get specified texts from a file.

Get target text from local disk

using (Comparer comparer = new Comparer(sourceDocumentPath))
{
    comparer.Add(targetDocumentPath);
    comparer.Compare(outputPath);
    ChangeInfo[] changes = comparer.GetChanges();
    foreach (ChangeInfo change in changes)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("");
        Console.WriteLine("Source text: " + change.SourceText);
        Console.WriteLine("Target text: " + change.TargetText);
    }
}

Get target text from stream

using (Comparer comparer = new Comparer(File.OpenRead("source.docx")))
{
    comparer.Add(File.OpenRead("target.docx"));
    comparer.Compare(outputPath);
    ChangeInfo[] changes = comparer.GetChanges();
    foreach (ChangeInfo change in changes)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("");
        Console.WriteLine("Source text: " + change.SourceText);
        Console.WriteLine("Target text: " + change.TargetText);
    }
}

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GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

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