Hello William, > How do you compare 2 strings, and determine how much they are "close" to > each other? Eg. > aqwerty > qwertyb > are similar to each other, except for first/last char. But, how do I > quantify that?
This is a classic problem of computer science. Watch this: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/lev/ http://www.levenshtein.net/ This solution has application in speech recognition and also in DNA research. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
