Identifying Near Duplicate Strings

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Hello all,

I have a scenario of identifying near duplicate strings. Let’s say same names “Sandeep Joice” & “Snadeep Joice” for example. These are not duplicate but near duplicate.

Any leads on how to identify?

Regards
Joice

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Hi
Hope these steps would help you resolve this
—now use assign activity like this
List_strings = Split(“yourinputstring”,” “).ToList()
—now use a while loop and mention the condition like this
counter < List_strings.Count
Where counter is a int32 variable with default value as 0 defined in the variable panel
—inside the while loop use a assign activity like this
occurrence = 0
Where occurrence is a int32 variable used to count how many times the string has repeated

—then next to this inside the while loop use a For each Activity and pass the above variable List_strings as input where change the type argument as string in the property panel
—inside the for each loop use a IF condition like this
item.ToString.Equals(List_strings(counter).ToString)
If this condition is true it will go to THEN part where we can use a assign activity like this
occurrence = occurrence + 1
—now next to this FOR EACH loop inside the while loop use a WRITELINE activity and mention like this
“The word “ +List_strings(counter).ToString+” has occurred “+occurrence.ToString+” times.”
—followed by that use a assign activity to increment the counter value like this
counter = counter + 1

Hope this would help you
Kindly try this and let know for any queries or clarification
Cheers @enoondusandeepa

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Thanks for the headsup. I tried this and it returns the occurrence of the word. What I am trying to do is, check the similarity of the two nearly duplicate strings. Based on the result, planning to perform some activities.

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Take a look at the custom activity from Roboyo, it calculates some of the more common Fuzzy matching algorithms. Read the license though as well.

https://go.uipath.com/component/roboyo-fuzzy-logic

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