diff function

[greeziakattack]

Hey, so I'm trying to write a program and am supposed to compare its output to the output I'm supposed to be getting using the diff function.

What appears to be EXACTLY the same output is apparently not at all the same using the diff function. This is becoming extremely irritating to figure out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-------------- Report -----------------
House price: $100000.00
Amount borrowed: $100000.00
Interest rate: 1.00;   Term: 30 years


Monthly payment: $321.64
Annual payment:  $3859.67
Total amount to repay:   $115790.23
Total interest payments: $15790.23
Interest is 15.79% of the principal


Down payment: $0.00 is 0.00% of house price
Total spent on house: $115790.23


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Full price: Incorrect value
Principal: Incorrect value
Interest: Incorrect value
Term: Incorrect value
Term: Incorrect value
Full price: Incorrect value
Principal greater than full price
Principal greater than full price
Term: Incorrect value

and

-------------- Report -----------------
House price: $100000.00
Amount borrowed: $100000.00
Interest rate: 1.00;   Term: 30 years


Monthly payment: $321.64
Annual payment:  $3859.67
Total amount to repay:   $115790.23
Total interest payments: $15790.23
Interest is 15.79% of the principal


Down payment: $0.00 is 0.00% of house price
Total spent on the house: $115790.23


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Full price: Incorrect value
Principal: Incorrect value
Interest: Incorrect value
Term: Incorrect value
Term: Incorrect value
Full price: Incorrect value
Principal greater than full price
Principal greater than full price
Term: Incorrect value

[oogabooga]

What does it say if you ignore whitespace with the -w option?

EDIT: These two lines are different:
Total spent on house: $115790.23
Total spent on the house: $115790.23

Didn't diff tell you that?

[greeziakattack]

No actually diff hasn't done squat for me it just outputs

1,27c1,27

and spits out both outputs again...

thanks for noticing that difference though, it still does the same thing.

apparently all the lines are different from eachother?

ultimately though it needs to run without the -w and give me no output.

[oogabooga]

What does it do with -w?

Could it be a difference in line endings? Are you creating it on a windows machine and diff'ing it on unix?

[greeziakattack]

Was creating it on a windows ssh'd into a linux server to use diff.

Just ran it with -w and got no output. So I'm assuming its some kind of line/spacing problem? I guess I gotta keep looking.

[Subsonics]

I tried to copy paste your text and ran diff on it, and the output was:

15c15
< Total spent on house: $115790.23
---
> Total spent on the house: $115790.23

[oogabooga]

Was creating it on a windows ssh'd into a linux server to use diff. Just ran it with -w and got no output. So I'm assuming its some kind of line/spacing problem?

Just ssh into the linux server, copy your source code over and compile and run it there. If for some reason you don't want to do that, you could maybe write to the file on windows in binary mode.

[Subsonics]

Perhaps it's those pesky dos line breaks. You could try:

od -ba filename

On both files.