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similar_text

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

similar_textCalculate the similarity between two strings

Description

similar_text ( string $first , string $second [, float &$percent ] ) : int

This calculates the similarity between two strings as described in Programming Classics: Implementing the World's Best Algorithms by Oliver (ISBN 0-131-00413-1). Note that this implementation does not use a stack as in Oliver's pseudo code, but recursive calls which may or may not speed up the whole process. Note also that the complexity of this algorithm is O(N**3) where N is the length of the longest string.

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Parameters

first

The first string.

second

The second string.

Note:

Swapping the first and second may yield a different result; see the example below.

percent

By passing a reference as third argument, similar_text() will calculate the similarity in percent, by dividing the result of similar_text() by the average of the lengths of the given strings times 100.

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Return Values

Returns the number of matching chars in both strings.

The number of matching characters is calculated by finding the longest first common substring, and then doing this for the prefixes and the suffixes, recursively. The lengths of all found common substrings are added.

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Examples

Example #1 similar_text() argument swapping example

This example shows that swapping the first and second argument may yield different results.

<?php
$sim 
similar_text('bafoobar''barfoo'$perc);
echo 
"similarity: $sim ($perc %)\n";
$sim similar_text('barfoo''bafoobar'$perc);
echo 
"similarity: $sim ($perc %)\n";

The above example will output something similar to:

similarity: 5 (71.428571428571 %)
similarity: 3 (42.857142857143 %)

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See Also

  • levenshtein() - Calculate Levenshtein distance between two strings
  • soundex() - Calculate the soundex key of a string

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