Hi Juman...
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> From: juman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:31 AM
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> Subject: Fuzzy string matching
>
>
> I have two strings I want to compare doing some kind of fuzzy
> matching?
> Is there some good way to that in perl or could someone help with a
> routine matching word by word and giving a percental result.
>
> Like
>
> String 1 : This is a ten characters long string is it not
> String 2 : This is not so long
>
> String 1 compared to String 2 gives 40% (four words are the same)
> String 2 compared to String 1 gives 80% (four word are the same)
>
> /juman
>
You might try fooling around with the List::Compare module
http://search.cpan.org/~jkeenan/List-Compare-0.22/Compare.pm . I've
been using it recently and it's pretty nifty. It won't give you the
percentages you want, but I think it could supply the raw comparison
data, and then you could compute the percentages yourself.
And if that's not quite right, the List::Compare page on CPAN
has references to similar modules at the bottom of the page, maybe one
of the other diff/compare modules might get you there.
Hope that helps.
-Chris
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