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Does anyone know of a simple way to compare two strings together to generate the ‘amount of difference’ between the two? (in a numeric value) I have been crawling google with little luck on this. And after doing some coding it’s not as simple as I had thought. Any clues?
Are you talking about the ‘Edit Distance’? Do a search on ‘Levenshtein Distance’, on SO or Google. I use the version posted on Stephen Toub’s blog