Are you writing this to a database? You may be able to use the Full Text search feature to compare the new string with the current string and give you a score on the difference.
Otherwise, sit back and get your head into this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance And come back to us when you've wrapped it in a cfc... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Onnis Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 4:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Text change percentage or score What I want to do it implement like a "Recently Updated" type of function into an app but I don't want to go by the Date Modified stamp because they might just be fixing a typo or something in there which doesn't really class as a major update. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 4:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Text change percentage or score just kicking around ideas...how do you define what is changed? individual letter placement? words? order? is this a 100% change? 1) Hi my name is Steve 2) name Hi is Steve my how about this? 1) Hi my name is Steve 1) hI MY NAME IS sTEVE On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Steve Onnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know of a method where you can calculate either by > percentage or score or something as to how much a string has changed? > > For example: > 1) Hi my name is Steve > 2) Hi my name is John > > Only the name has changed to the actual percentage change would be > low, like 20% > > Or.... > > 1) Hi my name is Steve > 2) The cow jumped over the moon > > The percentage change would be high, like 100% > > > > Steve > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
