Output differences between 2 strings

I'm looking to load an ascii file's contents into a string, and compare it against a string pulled down from a database table. And if the database table string does not match the string in the variable loaded from the file, dump to a long what's missing from the table's string or what's extra in the table string.

I know I can do a string.compare and get a boolean true/false, but can someone point me in the right direction on the how-to of parsing of text to do what I need?

Thanks,

 

String parsing is quite a large subject and depends mainly on what the data is and what you want to do with it. Can you give an example of some data and describe what you would like done with it?

 

Use the regex to compare the two string

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex regExTime = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("\\d{2}_\\d{2} [{A-Z}{A-Z}]", System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

if (regExTime.IsMatch(strFieldValue))

use this place other condition to match your search.