像這樣的事情是你真正想要的：
Public Function stringSimilarity(str1 As String, str2 As String) As Variant
'Simple version of the algorithm that computes the similiarity metric
'between two strings.
'NOTE: This verision is not efficient to use if you're comparing one string
'with a range of other values as it will needlessly calculate the pairs for the
'first string over an over again; use the array-optimized version for this case.
Dim sPairs1 As Collection
Dim sPairs2 As Collection
Set sPairs1 = New Collection
Set sPairs2 = New Collection
WordLetterPairs str1, sPairs1
WordLetterPairs str2, sPairs2
stringSimilarity = SimilarityMetric(sPairs1, sPairs2)
Set sPairs1 = Nothing
Set sPairs2 = Nothing
End Function
Public Function strSimA(str1 As Variant, rRng As Range) As Variant
'Return an array of string similarity indexes for str1 vs every string in input range rRng
Dim sPairs1 As Collection
Dim sPairs2 As Collection
Dim arrOut As Variant
Dim l As Long, j As Long
Set sPairs1 = New Collection
WordLetterPairs CStr(str1), sPairs1
l = rRng.Count
ReDim arrOut(1 To l)
For j = 1 To l
Set sPairs2 = New Collection
WordLetterPairs CStr(rRng(j)), sPairs2
arrOut(j) = SimilarityMetric(sPairs1, sPairs2)
Set sPairs2 = Nothing
Next j
strSimA = Application.Transpose(arrOut)
End Function
Public Function strSimLookup(str1 As Variant, rRng As Range, Optional returnType) As Variant
'Return either the best match or the index of the best match
'depending on returnTYype parameter) between str1 and strings in rRng)
' returnType = 0 or omitted: returns the best matching string
' returnType = 1 : returns the index of the best matching string
' returnType = 2 : returns the similarity metric
Dim sPairs1 As Collection
Dim sPairs2 As Collection
Dim metric, bestMetric As Double
Dim i, iBest As Long
Const RETURN_STRING As Integer = 0
Const RETURN_INDEX As Integer = 1
Const RETURN_METRIC As Integer = 2
If IsMissing(returnType) Then returnType = RETURN_STRING
Set sPairs1 = New Collection
WordLetterPairs CStr(str1), sPairs1
bestMetric = -1
iBest = -1
For i = 1 To rRng.Count
Set sPairs2 = New Collection
WordLetterPairs CStr(rRng(i)), sPairs2
metric = SimilarityMetric(sPairs1, sPairs2)
If metric > bestMetric Then
bestMetric = metric
iBest = i
End If
Set sPairs2 = Nothing
Next i
If iBest = -1 Then
strSimLookup = CVErr(xlErrValue)
Exit Function
End If
Select Case returnType
Case RETURN_STRING
strSimLookup = CStr(rRng(iBest))
Case RETURN_INDEX
strSimLookup = iBest
Case Else
strSimLookup = bestMetric
End Select
End Function
Public Function strSim(str1 As String, str2 As String) As Variant
Dim ilen, iLen1, ilen2 As Integer
iLen1 = Len(str1)
ilen2 = Len(str2)
If iLen1 >= ilen2 Then ilen = ilen2 Else ilen = iLen1
strSim = stringSimilarity(Left(str1, ilen), Left(str2, ilen))
End Function
Sub WordLetterPairs(str As String, pairColl As Collection)
'Tokenize str into words, then add all letter pairs to pairColl
Dim Words() As String
Dim word, nPairs, pair As Integer
Words = Split(str)
If UBound(Words) < 0 Then
Set pairColl = Nothing
Exit Sub
End If
For word = 0 To UBound(Words)
nPairs = Len(Words(word)) - 1
If nPairs > 0 Then
For pair = 1 To nPairs
pairColl.Add Mid(Words(word), pair, 2)
Next pair
End If
Next word
End Sub
Private Function SimilarityMetric(sPairs1 As Collection, sPairs2 As Collection) As Variant
'Helper function to calculate similarity metric given two collections of letter pairs.
'This function is designed to allow the pair collections to be set up separately as needed.
'NOTE: sPairs2 collection will be altered as pairs are removed; copy the collection
'if this is not the desired behavior.
'Also assumes that collections will be deallocated somewhere else
Dim Intersect As Double
Dim Union As Double
Dim i, j As Long
If sPairs1.Count = 0 Or sPairs2.Count = 0 Then
SimilarityMetric = CVErr(xlErrNA)
Exit Function
End If
Union = sPairs1.Count + sPairs2.Count
Intersect = 0
For i = 1 To sPairs1.Count
For j = 1 To sPairs2.Count
If StrComp(sPairs1(i), sPairs2(j)) = 0 Then
Intersect = Intersect + 1
sPairs2.Remove j
Exit For
End If
Next j
Next i
SimilarityMetric = (2 * Intersect)/Union
End Function
這樣使用它：
If stringSimilarity(strSeat, "Box") >= 0.8
'do stuff
End If
例如，
stringSimilarity("Vox", "Box") = 0.5
stringSimilarity("Boxx", "Box") = 0.8
stringSimilarity("Pavilion", "Pavillion") = 0.93
stringSimilarity("Box", "Pavillion") = 0
你可以得到更多的創意和比較strSeat到所有的可能性，然後採取最高的一個，如果它高於你的確定性評級，如0.5也許。
這更多的是我在想什麼，只是不知道如何開始。謝謝。 – Rosario