ALGORITHM - String similarity score/hash

Question

Is there a method to calculate something like general \"similarity score\" of a string? In a way that I am not comparing two strings together but rather I get some number/scores

Answer 1

I don't know if you are still into this, but in information theory there is a way to measure how much information a string or chunk of text has, maybe you could use that value as a hash in order to sort your strings. It is called entropy, and wikipedia has a nice article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)