Cosine Similarity

[Ramiro_iese]

Is it possible to calculate a cosine similarity for strings? I have data on a class of patents so I have to consider a string with letters and numbers 

[SASKiwi]

Not sure if this helps but the COMPGED and SPEDIS functions might do something similar to what you want.

[Ksharp]

Check @Rick_SAS 's blogs:
https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2019/09/03/cosine-similarity.html
https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2019/09/05/cosine-similarity-recommendations.html