Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-05 Thread andrew cooke
On Feb 4, 10:20 pm, Nick Matzke mat...@berkeley.edu wrote: So I have an interesting challenge.  I want to compare two book chapters, which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage similarity and (b) what has changed. no idea if it will help, but i found this yesterday -

Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-05 Thread Tino Wildenhain
andrew cooke wrote: On Feb 4, 10:20 pm, Nick Matzke mat...@berkeley.edu wrote: So I have an interesting challenge. I want to compare two book chapters, which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage similarity and (b) what has changed. no idea if it will help, but i found

Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-05 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2009-02-05 02:20, Nick Matzke wrote: Hi all, So I have an interesting challenge. I want to compare two book chapters, which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage similarity and (b) what has changed. Some features make this problem different than what seems to be the

Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-04 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Nick Matzke mat...@berkeley.edu wrote: Hi all, So I have an interesting challenge. I want to compare two book chapters, which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage similarity and (b) what has changed. Some features make this problem

Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-04 Thread Nick Matzke
Chris Rebert wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Nick Matzke mat...@berkeley.edu wrote: Hi all, So I have an interesting challenge. I want to compare two book chapters, which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage similarity and (b) what has changed. Some features make