Is there a package which tests string similarity?

[Athiwat Chunlakhan]

I need one for my grader project(for school) if it doesn't exists then I will write one.

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Athiwat Chunlakhan

[Jessta]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Athiwat Chunlakhan
<athi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I need one for my grader project(for school) if it doesn't exists then I
> will write one.
> --

What do you mean by 'similarity'? What makes one string similar to another?
If you want equality then you can just use '=='

eg.
if stringA == stringB {
//do something
}

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[Athiwat Chunlakhan]

I want more than testing for the equality. I also want the similarity of the string. So the output will be a number like the percentage of similarity. Sorry for my bad English.

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Athiwat Chunlakhan

[Miguel Pignatelli]

On 06/07/11 17:54, Jessta wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Athiwat Chunlakhan
> <athi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I need one for my grader project(for school) if it doesn't exists then I
>> will write one.
>> --
>
> What do you mean by 'similarity'? What makes one string similar to another?
> If you want equality then you can just use '=='

I think he is looking for computing the "distance" between strings (for
example, the Levenshtein distance):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algorithm_Implementation/Strings/Levenshtein_distance

I don't know of any package doing this. But shouldn't be too complicated
to write a function computing this distance.

M;

[André Moraes]

Also, don't forget to learn the difference from:

for idx := range(str) {
}

for i=int(0); i < len(str); i++; {
}

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http://andredevchannel.blogspot.com/

[James Keane]

Here is my crappy 5 minute contribution.

https://gist.github.com/1068610

James

2011/7/6 André Moraes <and...@gmail.com>

[Vida]

I also created one, 5 minutes contribution.

https://gist.github.com/1069374

On Jul 7, 6:44 am, James Keane <james.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is my crappy 5 minute contribution.https://gist.github.com/1068610
>
> James
>
> 2011/7/6 André Moraes <andr...@gmail.com>