"javuchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm searching for a library which makes aproximative string matching, >for example, searching in a dictionary the word "motorcycle", but >returns similar strings like "motorcicle". > >Is there such a library?
There is an algorithm called Soundex that replaces each word by a 4-character string, such that all words that are pronounced similarly encode to the same string. The algorithm is easy to implement; you can probably find one by Googling. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
