# Report: Text Compare

Our example data is a pair of nine line text files.

![](https://1446155253-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LXUX-uoaZJ8T4qyEc-x%2F-LbeKEIVcrQjvrowQ5H-%2F-LbeKO4wpBitPT2ec5s7%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=3f2c6435-450b-4884-a4dc-38cfcb73aeb0)

To save your text comparison results, just choose `Session->TextCompareReport` 

Choose HTML for more color, and for copy-paste possibilities.  Choose text for easier parsing.  

In Text format, here are six examples of the report format.  All are based on the diff shown above.

### Side-by-side

![](https://1446155253-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LXUX-uoaZJ8T4qyEc-x%2F-LbeKEIVcrQjvrowQ5H-%2F-LbeKXUtwpNCb0GPAr__%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=a87163e9-36a9-41b5-a495-c30c2100c5d9)

### Summary

![](https://1446155253-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LXUX-uoaZJ8T4qyEc-x%2F-LbeKEIVcrQjvrowQ5H-%2F-LbeKc8XZ1rby811Zugr%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=fa9d8a06-20f2-4811-87d9-a3d08ef3c91a)

### Interleaved

![](https://1446155253-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LXUX-uoaZJ8T4qyEc-x%2F-LbeKEIVcrQjvrowQ5H-%2F-LbeKirO73KmlTFigA9_%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=14e4eef6-23ed-4bbf-9072-3dc88caeb513)

### Patch

![](https://1446155253-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LXUX-uoaZJ8T4qyEc-x%2F-LbeKEIVcrQjvrowQ5H-%2F-LbeKoXVyS87ZLCik5Rn%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=8302595d-652b-42d3-b38b-1dd257b9e4fe)

### Statistics

![](https://1446155253-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LXUX-uoaZJ8T4qyEc-x%2F-LbeKzXLLfuR_za-xe1L%2F-LbeL-wT8lvXqJQovesj%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=0415b0f6-5e51-4022-8b16-eb435facba84)

### XML dump

![](https://1446155253-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LXUX-uoaZJ8T4qyEc-x%2F-LbeKzXLLfuR_za-xe1L%2F-LbeL3wP384hYvw94T4C%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=580a7752-a593-4996-9ac1-c3d96cf1058f)

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