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String Search Algorithms
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From
30/11/2001 08:58:41
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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30/11/2001 08:50:52
Jay Johengen
Altamahaw-Ossipee, North Carolina, United States
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00587899
Message ID:
00587936
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>>Hi All
>>
>>i was wondering, does anyone know where one could get a utility that compares two strings (a+b) and returns a percentage match
>>
>>Eg A = "JOE BLOGGS HOUSE"
>> B = "My Friend Joe Bloggs Lives In a huge House Down the Road"
>>
>>The utility would return a percentage figure of a match say 80% as it found "Joe Bloggs" and "House" in the sentence
>>
>>
>>Thanks
>>Mark
>
>Mark,
>
>Interesting... You would be looking for the percentage of matching words, right? I know that Nadya has a word parser as part of a larger process she has posted. I'll look in my libraries and see if I can find it. With that you could use something like AT to determine the matches in the strings. I might be slow though depending on the volume of what you're doing. There also may be an easier way...
>
>Renoir

Renoir,

I think you would usually want to use alines() for parsing.
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