Hi, I think this sounds more like "edit distance", but I am not sure why it would be needed for a config file.
Thank you, Noah silva On 2012/04/12, at 4:12, Juha Manninen <juha.mannine...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
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