rendered paste body $result = mysql_query($sql) or die ("<center> ERROR: ".mysql_error()."</center>"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc ($result)) { $compare = $row[term]; $levenshtein = levenshtein($trimmed, $compare); $lengthdifference = max($trimmed, $compare) - min($trimmed, $compare); $levenshtein-=$lengthdifference; $similarity = $levenshtein/strlen(min($trimmed, $compare)) * 100; $row['similarity'] = $similarity; $rows[$similarity] = $row; } ksort($rows,SORT_NUMERIC); foreach($rows as $key=>$value){ echo $key.'###'.$value;}