Re: general advice finding duplicate code

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Looks like the algorithms used for detecting plagiatism could help you here. If you are able to understand german, the following link to the Bauhaus University Weimar may help you: Search for documents on plagiatism-detection (most in german). In 2009 the university held a competition which sounds similar to your use-case

HTH, Rata

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Re^2: general advice finding duplicate code by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2011 at 07:02 UTC
Brilliant, that is just the keyword that was needed, plagiarism Source Code Similarity Detection Tools - Plagiarism \| Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences PMD - Finding copied and pasted code Note that CPD works with Java, JSP, C, C++, Fortran and PHP code.	[reply]

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