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Re: Module for comparing textby Zaxo (Archbishop) |
| on Sep 30, 2003 at 02:17 UTC ( [id://295194]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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Look at Algorithm::Diff or, if the strings are short and expected to be similar, Text::Levenshtein, a more sophisticated direct measure of similarity. A third way is to compress the two strings, and compress their concatenation. If they are similar, the concatenation will compress to not much more size than one of its parts. I don't know of a module that does that. After Compline,
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