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Re: st: Comparing similar strings
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"Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Comparing similar strings
Date
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:50:20 -0500
DVM
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Dimitriy V. Masterov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Take a look stgroup (and the bundled command levenshtein) from ssc. For example,
>
> . levenshtein "John Seballos" "John Zeballos"
> 1
>
> . levenshtein "Kate Smith" "Robert Gonzalez"
> 14
>
>
> DVM
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