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(PHP 3 >= 3.0.7, PHP 4, PHP 5)

similar_text–

Calculate the similarity between two strings

Description

int similar_text

( string first, string second [, float &percent] )

This calculates the similarity between two strings as described

in Oliver [1993]. Note that this implementation does not use a

stack as in Oliver’s pseudo code, but recursive calls which may

or may not speed up the whole process. Note also that the

complexity of this algorithm is O(N**3) where N is the length of

the longest string.

By passing a reference as third argument,

similar_text()

will calculate the similarity

in percent for you. It returns the number of matching chars in

both strings.

See also levenshtein()

, and soundex()

.