Re: String Comparison
- From: "Bill Gallik" <billgallik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:26:03 -0500
Ok, what programming language are you using for this?
Also, this is a very open-ended question because you haven't specified any
properties to be compared. For instance, if one string is 10 characters
long and the other is a half MB then what could the two possibly have in
common -- wouldn't this return a 0% similarity?
If I were writing such a function, I would design it such that:
1) are the two strings identical -- if so, return a 100%
2) if the only difference between the two strings is that some characters
are upper case and the same lower case letter occupies the identical slot in
the second string the function would return a +90% value.
From there, progressively lower similar per centages would be returned
depending on the requirements of the program.
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