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A while ago (June last year) I wrote a utility to detect runs of duplicate lines in files, which is useful for looking for repetitive code that should be refactored. Then I stopped work on it, since it was done.  The original blog post is here and the project is up on CodePlex here. This year I have revisited it with two new features which I ...

I have written a small utility that I call DuplicateFinder, since it finds duplicate lines of code in files.  I spent a year in the late 1990s working in small company. We asked prospective hires to submit code samples, and I was one of the people looking at the code. There are problems with this method, in that it's too easy to ...