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WinMerge Filter: ignore email address differences

Good day everyone,

I am comparing code that makes up two very similar websites. I am using WinMerge 2.12 to accomplish this. There are minor differences such as email addresses or names in footers etc.

What I cannot seem to figure out is how to tell WinMerge's filter how to ignore email addresses in two documents. Is there anyone who may have a suggestion?

Document 1: email is xyz@abc.com
Document 2: email is qrs@def.com

Equally, there can be different text only such as:

Document 1: "Special Message from Company a/a" (note the slash in the name)
Document 2: "Special Message from Company XYZ"

Thank you to anyone who has a recommendation.

Richard

sagonaholdings

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Thank you WallyMod! Much appreciated!

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sagonaholdings

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Hello fibo, thank you for taking the time to write and your ideas. I will try it but I am looking for a solution directly for Winmerge and in my case it really makes sense to hide the differences. I am doing repetitive work and constantly have to hide files that don't matter so I can get a good overall picture of other files that need to be worked on.

I will try it but hope that someone who is familiar with Winmerge may be able to add a comment.

Cheers,
Richard

sagonaholdings

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Was not solution I was looking for but this question seems to be outside the scope of this site.