"Dennieku" <dennieku@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Does anybody have an idea how to compare two strings?
> What I want to know is the percentage of the differences between the
strings
>
> Thx,
> Dennieku
>
>

"Jon Skeet" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> Dennieku <dennieku@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anybody have an idea how to compare two strings?
> > What I want to know is the percentage of the differences
> > between the strings
>
> Could you define exactly what you mean by "percentage of the
> differences"? If you can define it *exactly*, that will probably
> suggest a way of calculating it simply.

Dennieku <dennieku@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Does anybody have an idea how to compare two strings?
> What I want to know is the percentage of the differences
> between the strings

"Chad Myers" <cmyers@N0.SP.AM.austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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> "Jon Skeet" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.19bf11f69199f67f98a47f@news.microsoft.com...
> > Dennieku <dennieku@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Does anybody have an idea how to compare two strings?
> > > What I want to know is the percentage of the differences
> > > between the strings
> >
> > Could you define exactly what you mean by "percentage of the
> > differences"? If you can define it *exactly*, that will probably
> > suggest a way of calculating it simply.
>
> I think he means something like DIFFERENCE or
> SOUNDEX in SQL Server.
>
> Unfortunately there's nothing like this built into
> .NET and it's not a simple algorithm, but I'm sure
> you could probably find some examples on some
> academic pages. I think it has something to do
> with phonetic analysis of the words and then
> comparing the likeness of the placement of the
> various phonetic parts relative to the other
> string. MSR might have something like this
> already, they are always suprising me with
> new projects.
>
> -c
>
>