From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-01-12T14:18:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Comparing two files for equality

Edgardo Hames wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> After reading the "Refactoring for PL/SQL Developers" in the January
> issue of the Oracle magazine, I tried to implement a program that
> compares two files for equality. I came up with the following trivial
> solution
> 
> puts (IO.readlines file[0]) == (IO.readlines file[1])
> 
> Have you got any other suggestions?

Is this cheating?

require 'fileutils'
p FileUtils.cmp(file[0], file[1])