With this information we would have a complete comparison and could test a few different Alignment Override regular expressions to see what trouble you are running into and why it isn't working for you.Ī precise step by step guide please (here's what I did 1/3) One for each side of the comparison.Ī Snapshot is a virtual directory that can be loaded in Beyond Compare and contains all of your file names, but not the directories. If you are still having trouble, I would suggest emailing us at with:ġ) Your Support.zip (from the Help menu -> Support Export)Ģ) A link back to this forum post for referenceģ) Two Snapshot files generated from the Tools menu -> Save Snapshot. Is the truncation count a variable number? I tried counting the number of characters in your screenshot, and they appear to be more than 95. Michael's suggestion relies on the logic that your truncation happens at a specific character count (7 characters based on your first example, 95 on your second). This way, the Left expression matches the File Name that would be found on the left, and aligns it with the File Name you expect on the right. You then need to enable/check the Regular Expression checkbox when defining the Alignment Override (or editing it). The regular expression for the right side looks like: $1 (matching the first 95), followed by. eml), matching on the first 95 characters, followed by a. Since the truncated version in your example was 95 characters long (before the.
The (parentheses) allow us to reference the text found on the left again on the right.
This allows us to pick out the Right File's name, and continue matching on the entire Left File Name. In order to 'find' the truncated beginning, the part we want to align by for the second file, we split it up into two parts: * after the initial match is the regular expression must "match" on the entire left side. I then put the suggested Alignment Override into the Misc tab of the Session Settings and it also aligned the file examples without issues. With the updated example of ", compare, Compare files with partially matching file names.eml" I created a pair of files that match those names, and used Beyond Compare to find the cursor position in the filename (displayed in the bottom Text Compare status bar) to determine where the truncation is taking place. He is a fellow customer who is posting in this thread with suggestions for you to try. Please also note that Michael Bulgrien is not a Scooter Software employee. With the original examples Michael provided, I created pairs of text files, renamed them to your original examples (alpha123.txt) and they worked fine, verifying Michael's suggestion.
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