[vtk-developers] Comparing ascii files with kwsys::FilesDiffer

[Bill Lorensen]

Brad,

I'm trying to track down the cause for a failing test:
http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=176631193&build=2804631

The test compares two ASCII files. The difference is because (some,
but not all) windows systems handle newline differently than linux and
mac os.

In the link you can see that the contents of the two files "look" the
same, but the lengths of the two files is different and
vtksys::FilesDiffer reports they are different. That's because some
windows systems use a CR/LF character for newline while the linux
systems use LF.

How to solve this? I could add a FileDiff program to the test that
uses getline to compare the two files.

Can you suggest a better solution?

Thanks,

Bill