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Reference: Tools-Similar

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Criteria is now using saved Site values

This Similar page exists simply to facilitate an experiment with multiple approaches to determining when two strings (e.g. Names) are similar to each other.

KeyName1Name2Similar_TextLevenshteinSoundexMetaphoneSimilar(Metaphone)?
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20%00000-0000-0
30%00000-0000-0
40%00000-0000-0
50%00000-0000-0
60%00000-0000-0
70%00000-0000-0
80%00000-0000-0
90%00000-0000-0
100%00000-0000-0
110%00000-0000-0
120%00000-0000-0
130%00000-0000-0
140%00000-0000-0
150%00000-0000-0
160%00000-0000-0
170%00000-0000-0
180%00000-0000-0
190%00000-0000-0
200%00000-0000-0
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  • The Similar_Text-> column contains the {percentage} of characters that are shared between Name1 and Name2
  • The Levenshtein-> column contains the computed distance between the two strings (the minimal number of characters you have to replace, insert or delete to transform Name1 into Name2)
  • The Soundex-> column contains the soundex(Name1)-soundex(Name2)
  • The Metaphone-> column contains the metaphone(Name1)-metaphone(Name2)
  • The Similar(Metaphone) column contains the {percentage} of characters that are shared between metaphone(Name1) and metaphone(Name2)
  • The ? column contains an indication that the relation between Name1 and Name2 passes both the Similar_Text (60) and Levenshtein (6) tests