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- From: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Compare Algorithm
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- Date: 7 Mar 1996 21:33:30 GMT
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- Stewart Long (sl@sys.uea.ac.uk) wrote:
- : keyboard@indigo.ie wrote:
- : >
- : > Hi Guys,
- : >
- : > I wish to compare strings, and be able to find out what their differences are.
- : > These strings are usually sentences, so I want to be able to see what has
- : > been added or removed. If you know of a good algorithm in C/C++ to do the job,
- : > please post it here on the newsgroup.
- : > Thanks, Jo.
- : >
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- : I use the one in
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- : Webb Miller and Eugene W. Myers. A File Comparison program. Software - Practice
- : and Experience, 15: 1025-1040, 1985.
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- : It's well explained and is given in C code.
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- : Hope this helps,
-
- : Stewart
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- ***********begin r.s. response*************
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- also...
- there are well known library functions...
- likely place to find prototypes...
- <string.h>
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- ***********end r.s. response***************
- Ralph Silverman
- z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us
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