OK, as promised here it is. http://www.bradwood.com/string_compare/
This is a very crude example, and I'm sure the code can be improved upon, but feel free to use it if you think it will help you. Also, I should clarify... Below I stated that it didn't perform to well when doing thousands of long string compares. That is only half true. It is slower in CF7, but when I ran it on CF8 it KICKED BUTT. I'm talking, a 3 minute page load reduced down to 13 seconds on a SLOWER server. Go CF8! ~Brad -----Original Message----- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:50 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Comparing 2 different chunks of text Hold on-- you had this conversation too early for me to get to work and reply. :) I have a function I wrote a while back to do this. It is a variant of the LCS or Longest Common String method. I found a version online in C called SIFT3 or something and changed it to cfscript. It doesn't perform the best on long strings when you have thousands of them to compare, but at least it could give you something to start with. Give me a minute to post the code somewhere... ~Brad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306168 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
