wp-includes/Text/Diff/Engine/shell.php:17Class used internally by Diff to actually compute the diffs.
$_diffCommandstringpublicclass Text_Diff_Engine_shell { /** * Path to the diff executable * * @var string */ var $_diffCommand = 'diff'; /** * Returns the array of differences. * * @param array $from_lines lines of text from old file * @param array $to_lines lines of text from new file * * @return array all changes made (array with Text_Diff_Op_* objects) */ function diff($from_lines, $to_lines) { array_walk($from_lines, array('Text_Diff', 'trimNewlines')); array_walk($to_lines, array('Text_Diff', 'trimNewlines')); $temp_dir = Text_Diff::_getTempDir(); // Execute gnu diff or similar to get a standard diff file. $from_file = tempnam($temp_dir, 'Text_Diff'); $to_file = tempnam($temp_dir, 'Text_Diff'); $fp = fopen($from_file, 'w'); fwrite($fp, implode("\n", $from_lines)); fclose($fp); $fp = fopen($to_file, 'w'); fwrite($fp, implode("\n", $to_lines)); fclose($fp); $diff = shell_exec($this->_diffCommand . ' ' . $from_file . ' ' . $to_file); unlink($from_file); unlink($to_file); if (is_null($diff)) { // No changes were made return array(new Text_Diff_Op_copy($from_lines)); } $from_line_no = 1; $to_line_no = 1; $edits = array(); // Get changed lines by parsing something like: // 0a1,2 // 1,2c4,6 // 1,5d6 preg_match_all('#^(\d+)(?:,(\d+))?([adc])(\d+)(?:,(\d+))?$#m', $diff, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER); foreach ($matches as $match) { if (!isset($match[5])) { // This paren is not set every time (see regex). $match[5] = false; } if ($match[3] == 'a') { $from_line_no--; } if ($match[3] == 'd') { $to_line_no--; } if ($from_line_no < $match[1] || $to_line_no < $match[4]) { // copied lines assert($match[1] - $from_line_no == $match[4] - $to_line_no); array_push($edits, new Text_Diff_Op_copy( $this->_getLines($from_lines, $from_line_no, $match[1] - 1), $this->_getLines($to_lines, $to_line_no, $match[4] - 1))); } switch ($match[3]) { case 'd': // deleted lines array_push($edits,Introduced in 0.3.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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