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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 13:49:00 -0500
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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