Object Compare How to: Change the way text is compared
Object Compare uses properties of objects to determine if an object is different
to another. Properties are text values describing a specific attribute of an object.
For files, in addition to properties describing the file (such as file size, modified
date etc) the text contents of the file are also compared.
Because properties and file contents are treated as text (except when performing
binary comparisons on files), Object Compare provides several options for controlling
how text is compared.
To change the way text is compared:
Open Object Compare and select Tools -> Options from the main
menu.
In the Options dialog, select the General tab.
Check Ignore white space to ignore white space in text values (i.e.
"abc" = "a b c").
Check Ignore upper and lowercase distinctions to ignore case differences between text values (i.e. "ABC" = "abc").
Check Ignore leading and trailing characters to ignore space differences
at the beginning and end of text values (i.e. " abc " = "abc").