Hi,

I would like to spot the observations that are very much alike within one string variable.

Let's say for instance that I have a variable with 4 observations, such as:
var1
observation1: "cat"
obs 2: "caty"
obs 3: "the cat is beautiful"
obs 4: "cat"
I would like to have some distance measure that tells me that observation 1 and 4 are equal, observations 1 and 2 are quite similar, but observations 1 and 3 are very different. Is it possible?

Thanks