Preserved Topic: Cross reference software

Hola! I am looking for a specific type of software and have played hell trying to find it, perhaps someone here can help me out.

I need a form of software that will take two text files of any size and do a cross reference check to look for similar phrases and words. Sort of a word search type program that compares the results between two text files. Any help would be great. Thanks!

While I wouldn't have a clue where to get such a program, I'd like to mention that the saying 'You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave' is quite true. Welcome back, unoriginal bastard. *salutes*

I also don't know where to find such a software, sorry.
But it seems you're looking for a detectPlagiarism() software...


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I'm not quite sure what you're looking for.

If you want a program that can search for words or phrases across several documents I would recommend Ultraedit. It has a robust search feature and can search to terms in all open documents, or even all text documents in a specific folder for example.

Now, if you're looking for a program that will compare two files to see if they have any phrases in common, then I haven't seen anything like this.

Ultraedit will do a line compare on two files, but not a word for word or phrase compare. However, if you could write a program to parse both text files so that each word would be on a separate line, then the line compare would work for you.

That's what I'd recommend you'd do in lieu of specific software available to do the job.

well, I wrote a program to do something like that... it's a Perl hack, though...

do you have a PERL interpreter?

(I'll show you the link when I have a little more time)



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I do not have a PERL interpreter, but I can get one easy enough. Which one do you reccomend?

Oh, and it is nice to be back at the Asylum. I have not been around for a while, but for some reason I feel strangely at home


[This message has been edited by The Jackal (edited 12-12-2002).]

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You might also check out SlickEdit

I usually use it for programming and scripts and such, but you can do text documents the same way.

Very nice program all the same. Although it is not free

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OK Pet, where is the link to the PERL hack ya got?

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Hey, Jackal

Long time no see. Missed your tagline

What have you been up to?

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damnit, no- it doesn't do what you wanted it to do....

what my script does is search all the files in a directory and pull a line (if it exists) out of them and toss them in another file..

I don't think it's what youre looking for...

.....but post exactly what you want to do and maybe we can hack something together for you!


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What I am looking for is this. I need a program that takes two text files and runs a comparison between the two looking for phrases that match each other. Sort of a plagiarism detector. You can either compare two entire documents or run a search for specific phrases. The search option would allow you to look for exact phrase matches between the entirety of the two documents or proximity searches which find the co-occurrence of two or three words or phrases. You could also do a Boolean search to find combinations of two or three words in a given paragraph. You can see what I am looking for as far as search options go at this link: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/mormon/

No I am not Mormon, but this web site shows what I am looking for in the search area.

Nimraw, I have been up to much to mention. My wife is pregnant with our first child and I have been doing little else than trying to survive and make a living. I don't spend as much time on the net as I used to, so I haven?t been around for a while. I usually read what is going on and don't post much. Hopefully this will change! CYA!

Maybe try using grep? Grep is pretty robust in its regular expressions, you might even try diff which shows you the differences between files.

If you are running windows I am sure you could find a program that runs on windows. I know those programs are pretty standard on Unix as well.

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after some searching: http://www.wingrep.com/ http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/grep.html

don't go with a pay version. grep should be free somewhere.

I couldn't find diff, but I am sure it must exist in some form or another.

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[This message has been edited by WarMage (edited 12-13-2002).]

BOOYAA! Found it. Software for Windows that compares files looking for plagiarisms. If ya need it, get it at http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/Wsoftware.html

Compaq, IBM, Microsoft, etc....

Ars Longa Vita Brevis!

thanks for that, Jackal. I can see that app will be useful later on for me!

Yannah:
what on earth are you talking about?