On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd < markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> I know that there are algorithms which given a text fragment will find the > "best fit" from a number of candidates, based on how many substrings have > to be deleted or changed. > > Is there anything like this in the standard FPC library, and if not does > anybody have one or a URL? > > Application is a configuration file handler, where parameters describe > things like keyboard layout, and I want to include some latitude so that a > user doesn't have to get it exactly right if editing by hand. > Maybe you mean something like Soundex: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/strutils/soundex.html I myself would make a GUI for the configuration file and give all valid choices in comboboxes and radiogroups etc. Juha
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