Compare producing differences in any line that is all blanks
I started using RTC prior to Christmas for the first time and ran across a problem. I edited a COBOL program and had the source in my personal workspace. I wanted to run a compare with the one in the production stream to make sure that I made the correct changes. When I compared my work source to the production source, the editor seemed to have added a strange character to any line that was all spaces in my personal workspace. This particular program I was working with is quite large and there are quite a few blank lines in the program, hence making the compare useless. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do to prevent this from happening?
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I started using RTC prior to Christmas for the first time and ran across a problem. I edited a COBOL program and had the source in my personal workspace. I wanted to run a compare with the one in the production stream to make sure that I made the correct changes. When I compared my work source to the production source, the editor seemed to have added a strange character to any line that was all spaces in my personal workspace. This particular program I was working with is quite large and there are quite a few blank lines in the program, hence making the compare useless. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do to prevent this from happening?
This is not an RTC functionality but rather Eclipse or whatever extension of eclipse you use. Have a look at
http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Ftasks-68b.htm
there is an option in the preferences to ignore white spaces in eclipse compare.