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Re: Search for similar strings - to standardiseby Rival (Acolyte) |
| on Oct 30, 2009 at 16:15 UTC ( [id://804191]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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For the string comparison, using the Levenshtein distance is probably your best bet. This is often used in spell-checking to suggest corrections. For implementations, there is a Text::Levenshtein module on CPAN. But also, take a look at this node and this node.
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