I think you can embed code from BSD diff in your program. That is plain C and 
you just need to call it using your Objective-C code.

Alternatively you can look into the implementation of BSD diff or GNU diffutils 
and rewrite it using Objective-C or Swift for your project.

Sent from my iPad

> On Aug 13, 2014, at 20:34, Koen van der Drift <koenvanderdr...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to use a diff tool in an iOS app? My app at one point
> needs to find the difference between two large text files, and using diff
> or something similar may be a possible solution. Both files are downloaded
> as NSData objects from an external source, and right now I have converted
> them to NSString objects. But they can be in any format, as long as I can
> find a way which lines have changed.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Koen.
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