Hi to the monks I have looked at previous posts and can't find something similar. I want to do something and i thought Perl would be ideal due to its properties with using text. Basically, i want to be able to compare some text strings and for every pair that are the same add 1. That is if there are no similar strings get a 0 and for every pair of similar strings add 1 so the final output would be a number. I presume i would need a parser to do this but i haven't used one before and haven't got a clue how and if i could do this? Any ideas?

Hopefully what i ve written makes sense. Thanks

2006-01-29 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Parsing Text Into Numbers'

In reply to Counting Similar Strings by lampros21_7

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