Whitespace Enumeration

This enumeration defines constants for whitespace significance in file comparisons. The values in this enumeration can be combined with a bitwise OR operation. You can use the numeric values from scripting languages that do not have access to the symbolic enumeration constants.

Constant Value Description
wsIgnoreNone 0x0000 (0) Don’t ignore whitespace.
wsIgnoreAll 0x0001 (1) Ignore all differences in whitespace.
wsIgnoreLeading 0x0002 (2) Ignore differences in whitespace at the start of lines.
wsIgnoreTrailing 0x0004 (4) Ignore differences in whitespace at the end of lines.
wsIgnoreConsecutive 0x0008 (8) Treat consecutive whitespace characters as a single whitespace character.