Re: String Similarity

> Mark Woodward wrote:
>> I have a side project that needs to "intelligently" know if two strings
>> are contextually similar. Think about how CDDB information is collected
>> and sorted. It isn't perfect, but there should be enough information to
>> be
>> usable.
>>
>> Think about this:
>>
>> "pink floyd - dark side of the moon - money"
>> "dark side of the moon - pink floyd - money"
>> "money - dark side of the moon - pink floyd"
>> etc.
>>
>> To a human, these strings are almost identical. Similarly:
>>
>> "dark floyd of money moon pink side the"
>>
>> Is a puzzle to be solved by 13 year old children before the movie
>> starts.
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>
> Hmmm... I think I like this problem. Maybe I'll work on it a bit as a
> contrib
> module.

I *have* a working function, but it is not very efficient and it is not
what I would call numerically predictable. And it does find the various
sub-strings between the two strings in question.

Email me offline and we can make something for contrib.