String::Similarity(3pm) - phpMan

Similarity(3pm)                User Contributed Perl Documentation                Similarity(3pm)

NAME
       String::Similarity - calculate the similarity of two strings

SYNOPSIS
        use String::Similarity;

        $similarity = similarity $string1, $string2;
        $similarity = similarity $string1, $string2, $limit;

DESCRIPTION
       $factor = similarity $string1, $string2, [$limit]
           The "similarity"-function calculates the similarity index of its two arguments.  A
           value of 0 means that the strings are entirely different. A value of 1 means that the
           strings are identical. Everything else lies between 0 and 1 and describes the amount
           of similarity between the strings.

           It roughly works by looking at the smallest number of edits to change one string into
           the other.

           You can add an optional argument $limit (default 0) that gives the minimum similarity
           the two strings must satisfy. "similarity" stops analyzing the string as soon as the
           result drops below the given limit, in which case the result will be invalid but lower
           than the given $limit. You can use this to speed up the common case of searching for
           the most similar string from a set by specifying the maximum similarity found so far.

SEE ALSO
        The basic algorithm is described in:
        "An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and its Variations", Eugene Myers,
        Algorithmica Vol. 1 No. 2, 1986, pp. 251-266;
        see especially section 4.2, which describes the variation used below.

        The basic algorithm was independently discovered as described in:
        "Algorithms for Approximate String Matching", E. Ukkonen,
        Information and Control Vol. 64, 1985, pp. 100-118.

AUTHOR
        Marc Lehmann <schmorp AT schmorp.de>
        http://home.schmorp.de/

        (the underlying fstrcmp function was taken from gnu diffutils and
        modified by Peter Miller <pmiller AT agso.au> and Marc Lehmann
        <schmorp AT schmorp.de>).

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