intelligent comparison of strings in Perl

[Ilya Palagin]

Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
...
> 
> I suspect that there are "wiser" Perl modules around there. I would like 
> to compare if two very similar strings are bearing in fact the same 
> information (with some probabilty, of course, despite they are 
> "different" strings).

"The same information" depends on context.  Two strings
contain "Toronto" and "Calgary".  Do they contain the same info?
No - these are different cities.
Yes - both are good as an example of Canadian city.

The module you need is String::AI
:-)
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