[Lhasa Limited]: String Comparison node now available in the Lhasa Limited public plugin

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Hi All

A new KNIME node has been added to the Lhasa public plugin that does string comparison generating a highlighted diff that can then be viewed in the old and new KNIME UI.

Example workflow:

Example output old UI:

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image1696×501 25.7 KB

Example output new UI:

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image3205×472 58.8 KB

Functionality is based on GitHub - google/diff-match-patch: Diff Match Patch is a high-performance library in multiple languages that manipulates plain text.

As usual any issues drop us a message on the forum and we’ll take a look.

Cheers

Sam (on behalf of the Lhasa node devs)

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Oh, that’s nice - I was just thinking about exactly this functionality this afternoon!

Steve

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When the notification you posted just popped up my first thought was: “maybe we should have checked if this existed in the Vernalis nodes first” :smiley:

I hope it’s of use to you!

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Well my thought when I thought it was that I was glad I hadn’t just started writing it without looking for it :laughing:

(Obviously, that never happens!)

Steve

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Of course not, I’m certain neither of us have made a node that already exists :smiley:

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An improvement has been made and released for KNIME 5.3 and 5.4. Diffs on XML content should now render correctly as HTML Cells, the xml entities are now escaped.