go-diff Documentation

The go-diff library provides algorithms for synchronizing plain text through three primary operations:

• Comparison: Comparing two texts to identify their differences.
• Fuzzy Matching: Performing fuzzy matching of text.
• Patching: Applying patches onto text to synchronize it.

To install the go-diff package and its dependencies, use the following Go command:

go get -u github.com/sergi/go-diff/...

To compare two strings and visualize the differences, use the diffmatchpatch package.

1. Initialize a new instance using diffmatchpatch.New().
2. Generate the differences using DiffMain(text1, text2, semantic).
3. Convert the differences into a human-readable format using DiffPrettyText(diffs).

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/sergi/go-diff/diffmatchpatch"
)

const (
	text1 = "Lorem ipsum dolor."
	text2 = "Lorem dolor sit amet."
)

func main() {
	dmp := diffmatchpatch.New()

	diffs := dmp.DiffMain(text1, text2, false)

	fmt.Println(dmp.DiffPrettyText(diffs))
}