From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2008-07-09T00:27:31+09:00
Subject: Re: String matching/comparing, statistical similarity

Chris Chris wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am trying to find a solution for this problem:
> 
(...)
> Second thing I thought of, maybe there's a way in Ruby to compare
> strings and get back a percentage of how similar the strings are?

I don't think this can be done. You may be able to come up with 
something but you'll never know if it's correct. Anyway, Levenshtein 
distance is available:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/levenshtein/

Regards,

Siep

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