Redline Comparison

Overview

This plug-in is used for auditing and history tracking. For long sequences of text, simply noting that something has changed is not sufficient. If one word out of 1000 has changed there needs to be a way to cleanly highlight that inline.

Key Features & Functionality

Contains a text comparison function that provides a redlined output in the form of a list of easily readable dictionaries. The function splits text on whitespace and compares the list of sub-strings using a least-edit-distance algorithm. For this reason, if newline or tab characters must be preserved the text should be manipulated in SAIL prior to running the plug-in.