in reply to Comparing likeness of two strings

I'm going to give the Text::LevenshteinXS module a try to find out if that implementation is really significantly faster than the pure perl function that I've got now.

Thanks for the input!

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Re^2: Comparing likeness of two strings
by RiotTown (Scribe) on Jan 19, 2005 at 22:15 UTC
    Huge improvement. I've seen increases in performance of 2-3x over the pure Perl. Once again, thanks!
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