Feature Request: ignorePunctuation

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing jsdiff's public diff options and existing tests, then define how punctuation should be ignored and how that affects returned diff segments before implementing coverage for the chosen behavior.

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Description

diffWords behaviour minor-feature-request

Anyway to build an option to ignore punctuation in the diff?

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