note 62715 added to function.similar-text

From: Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:08:08 +0000
Subject: note 62715 added to function.similar-text
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Well... hard to explain, why I have written this function, but maybe it will be usefull. <?php // returns the percentage of the string "similarity" function str_compare($str1, $str2) { $count = 0; $str1 = ereg_replace("[^a-z]", ' ', strtolower($str1)); while(strstr($str1, ' ')) { $str1 = str_replace(' ', ' ', $str1); } $str1 = explode(' ', $str1); $str2 = ereg_replace("[^a-z]", ' ', strtolower($str2)); while(strstr($str2, ' ')) { $str2 = str_replace(' ', ' ', $str2); } $str2 = explode(' ', $str2); if(count($str1)<count($str2)) { $tmp = $str1; $str1 = $str2; $str2 = $tmp; unset($tmp); } for($i=0; $i<count($str1); $i++) { if(in_array($str1[$i], $str2)) { $count++; } } return $count/count($str2)*100; } ?> ---- Server IP: 212.47.220.12 Probable Submitter: 193.40.133.134 (proxied: 193.40.10.178) ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.similar-text.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/62715 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62715/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62715/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62715/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62715/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62715/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62715/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62715 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/62715 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

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