"Similar" is a rather vague description. Are you looking for overlap? Length? Number of characters in the same location in each string? Number of similar characters?
Soundex is a good start if what your are looking for is similarity in a sounds-like or spell-check sense, but isn't very helpful for UUIDs. --Ben Doom Chris Long wrote: > I'm looking for an algorithm that will take two pieces of text as input and > return some comparison of those texts, and how similar they are to one > another. Ideally I would like it to return a number which would indicate the > level of similarity, but I c > an probably work with just about anything. > > Are there any good algorithms out there for doing this? Any help would be > much appreciated. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271633 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
