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/*   
* Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
*
*   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
*   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
*   You may obtain a copy of the License at
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*   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
*  limitations under the License.
*/
//based on Apache technology http://www.apache.org

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.LineNumberReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.util.List;


public class Diff
{
    public static void readersAsText(Reader r1, String name1, Reader r2, String name2,
        List diffs)
        throws IOException
    {
        LineNumberReader reader1 = new LineNumberReader(r1);
        LineNumberReader reader2 = new LineNumberReader(r2);
        String line1 = reader1.readLine();
        String line2 = reader2.readLine();
        while (line1 != null && line2 != null)
        {
            if (!line1.equals(line2))
            {
                diffs.add("File \"" + name1 + "\" and file \"" +
                    name2 + "\" differ at line " + reader1.getLineNumber() +
                    ":" "\n" + line1 + "\n" + line2);
                break;
            }
            line1 = reader1.readLine();
            line2 = reader2.readLine();
        }
        if (line1 == null && line2 != null)
            diffs.add("File \"" + name2 + "\" has extra lines at line " +
                reader2.getLineNumber() ":\n" + line2);
        if (line1 != null && line2 == null)
            diffs.add("File \"" + name1 + "\" has extra lines at line " +
                reader1.getLineNumber() ":\n" + line1);
    }
}

   
  
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