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sebastian/diff
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Diff implementation

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sebastian/diff
==============

[](#sebastiandiff)

Diff implementation for PHP, factored out of PHPUnit into a stand-alone component.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can add this library as a local, per-project dependency to your project using [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/):

```
composer require sebastian/diff

```

If you only need this library during development, for instance to run your project's test suite, then you should add it as a development-time dependency:

```
composer require --dev sebastian/diff

```

### Usage

[](#usage)

#### Generating diff

[](#generating-diff)

The `Differ` class can be used to generate a textual representation of the difference between two strings:

```