title: Viewing assumed changes by VQMOD
body: <p>Is there any application /software where you can see the outcome of the file that vqmod will change and see what it looks like?</p>
  
  <p>example</p>
  
  <pre><code>$var = 'ABC';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In Vqmod make the changes to make ABC into 123,</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
      &lt;modification
                  xmlns="https://github.com/vqmod/vqmod"
                  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                  xsi:schemaLocation="https://github.com/vqmod/vqmod https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vqmod/vqmod/master/vqmod.xsd"&gt;
                  &gt;
          &lt;id&gt;Replace 123 with ABC&lt;/id&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;1.0.0&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;vqmver&gt;2.5.0&lt;/vqmver&gt;
          &lt;author&gt;qphoria&lt;/author&gt;
  
          &lt;file name="relative/path/myfile.php"&gt;
              &lt;operation&gt;
                  &lt;search position="replace"&gt;&lt;![CDATA[
                  $var = 'ABC';
                  ]]&gt;&lt;/search&gt;
  
                  &lt;add&gt;&lt;![CDATA[
                  $var = 123;
                  ]]&gt;&lt;/add&gt;
              &lt;/operation&gt;
          &lt;/file&gt; 
      &lt;/modification&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/vqmod/vqmod/wiki/Scripting" rel="nofollow"><em>Above xml scriptis a slight modification from GitHub</em></a></p>
  
  <p>but without applying/installing the xml file is there a way to see:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$var = 123; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in a seperate window/output.</p>
  
  <p>This is a simplistic example but for more complex vqmod's it would be helpful to see if one has messed any code mistakenly.
  I am not too familiar with the search process for the search field.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong>
  What are VqCache files? Do they contain the changed files?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>
  So I am starting to believe that the vqcache files are similar to what I've been looking for. It would be nice to see while I am typing up the vqmod though</p>