# listCompare Copy/paste two lists of names and press the Compare! button to find name matches. First list is saved in your browser's local storage for easy repeat use. - names must have at least 2 parts (firstname & lastname) - each name can be forwards or reveresed, including comma-separated (lastname, firstname) - no need to "scrub" each list, special characters are automatically removed, so copy/paste from any source, including a spreadsheet ## Planned Changes - add sensitivity adjustment - switch to regex to remove special characters - change list names to list1, list2 - add "click to confirm" for close matches Getting Started This script works great right here, hosted on GitHub.io. Feel free to download, adapt and install on another server. ## Author Michael Hobson - initial work - @maskSnorkelFins ## Acknowledgments Thank you to Robert While and Susan Gerb for advice. String comparison accomplished via a Levenshtein distance script posted by overlord1234 on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36566052/1427748 Found it via googlicius GitHub repository similarity.js: https://gist.github.com/googlicius/a68a05473c3c73a7fe0e7d45872f8358 ## License This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details