Grabbing Edits from two strings

Question

I\'m going to go a bit in-depth with my problem, you can jump to the TL;DR if you don\'t want to read all of this

What I\'m trying to do

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Answer 1

This is a problem akin to code versioning and saving only the changes between versions.

Take a look at jsdiff

You can create a patch, save it, and apply it later to the original text to get the modified text.