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From: johnk@spasm.niddk.nih.gov (John Kuszewski)
Subject: string comparison functions?
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:36:25 GMT
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Hi,

Does anyone have some good string comparison functions
implemented in Smalltalk?  I'm looking for something 
along the lines of unix's 'diff', but which will compare
individual characters for insertions, deletions, or 
substitutions, rather than just line by line.

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