Hi all,
Does anyone now if there is a way to do a fuzzy string compare in c#?
For example, comparing 'cat' to 'cats' would return something like a
90% match ratio. I was told that this type of fuctionality exists in
Perl but I can't find anything about it in c#.
Thanks
Mike
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use a regular expression
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news:11******** **************@ g44g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. . Hi all,
Does anyone now if there is a way to do a fuzzy string compare in c#?
For example, comparing 'cat' to 'cats' would return something like a
90% match ratio. I was told that this type of fuctionality exists in
Perl but I can't find anything about it in c#.
Thanks
Mike
On Mon, 23 May 2005 15:09:51 -0700, michael.f.morri son wrote: Hi all,
Does anyone now if there is a way to do a fuzzy string compare in c#? For
example, comparing 'cat' to 'cats' would return something like a 90% match
ratio. I was told that this type of fuctionality exists in Perl but I
can't find anything about it in c#.
Thanks
Mike
Don't waste your time investigating regular expressions as suggested; a
regexp either matches or does not match, there is no fuzziness about it.
Regexps *may* help you in implementing a fuzzy matching algorithm in some
small way.
I'd suggest that you may want to investigate ways to implement the
Levenshtein distance if you are comparing multiple terms. The following
link has a nice explanation and source code in VB, Java and C http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm
and here's the c# version for the truly lazy :) http://www.merriampark.com/ldcsharp.htm
seani wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2005 15:09:51 -0700, michael.f.morri son wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone now if there is a way to do a fuzzy string compare in
c#? For example, comparing 'cat' to 'cats' would return something like a
90% match ratio. I was told that this type of fuctionality exists in Perl
but I can't find anything about it in c#.
Thanks
Mike
Don't waste your time investigating regular expressions as suggested;
a regexp either matches or does not match, there is no fuzziness about
it. Regexps *may* help you in implementing a fuzzy matching algorithm in
some small way.
I'd suggest that you may want to investigate ways to implement the
Levenshtein distance if you are comparing multiple terms. The
following link has a nice explanation and source code in VB, Java and C
http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm
and here's the c# version for the truly lazy :)
http://www.merriampark.com/ldcsharp.htm
Thanks
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