On Apr 21, 2004, at 8:40, Winter Christian wrote:
No, this one also counts similarities after the first differing character.
$x = "abcfff"; $y = "abcggg";
correctly gives 3, but just try out
$x = "abcfff"; $y = "abcgff";
which gives you 5 because of the matching "f"s.
This way it should work: $_=$x^$y; $n=s/[^\0]//?$-[0]:()
Good. With a little modification we get 26 if this is right:
$_=$x^$y;$n=$-[0]if/[^\0]/
-- fxn
