A simple approach would be to build two hashes from the strings, and then compare the hashes.
So you might do something like:
my %foo;
my $string = 'Poet Blake had a milky white cat. He used to call it Pus
+sy.';
for my $word (split /\s+/, $string) {
$foo{$word}++;
}
You do the same for the second string, and then to compare you simply iterate through one of the hashes and increment a counter if each word is present in the other hash. Something like so:
my $cnt;
for my $word (keys %foo) {
$cnt++ if $bar{$word};
}
To find the total number of words in either string, you simply count the number of keys in the hash, e.g.
my $word_count = scalar keys %foo;
And then it's just a simple calculation.
Obvious question is how does your calculation look if the two strings contain a different number of words? But I'm sure you can decide that.
hope this helps,
Darren
