Posted by FFMG on 06/15/07 05:29

Schraalhans Keukenmeester;76472 Wrote:
> At Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:35:23 -0400, FFMG let h(is|er) monkeys type:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am looking for a way to compare 2 short paragraphs that are almost
> > the same.
> >
> > Is there some kind of algorithm that would allow us to compare the
> two
> > and return some kind of likely hood of the text been the same?
> >
> > I am not talking about synonyms and complex things like that, simply
> > sentences that have been changed by one or two words.
> >
> > Is there anything like that available?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > FFMG
>
> Check out the soundex() and levenshtein() functions. They might be
> what
> you need. Alternatively split your strings in words in arrays and use
> array_intersect() to get an idea of the overlap.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Schraalhans Keukenmeester - schraalhans@the.Spamtrapexample.nl
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>
> "strcmp('apples','oranges') < 0"

Thanks, i didn't even know that PHP had such function(s).
And I did look around.

Thanks

FFMG


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