Hello Serge, Thursday, May 8, 2003, 9:17:22 PM, you wrote: hola, SG> Btw, I took your code for a testdrive and it's good! Works even SG> when comparing very short and very long strings. While you're at SG> it, you *MIGHT* want to write some code for scoring matrices (it SG> is related to the levenshtein thingie). ill try my best, but it will definetely take some time, because of my poor mathematical skills. -- Best regards, frank mailto:asseg@ukl.uni-freiburg.de