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similar_text
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
similar_text — Calculate the similarity between two strings
Description
$first
, string $second
[, float &$percent
] ) : intThis 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.
Parameters
-
first -
The first string.
-
second -
The second string.
Note:
Swapping the
firstandsecondmay 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.
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.
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 %)
See Also
- levenshtein() - Calculate Levenshtein distance between two strings
- soundex() - Calculate the soundex key of a string
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