Re: "Near match" pattern matching.

2001-11-01 Thread John W. Krahn
Matt Klicka wrote: > > I'm looking for some ideas on how to do a "near match" > or "fuzzy logic" pattern match. Something that will > say, for example, that two strings 80% match. I was > thinking that spell checkers and search engines use > this kind of thing all the time. Do they have a really

Re: "Near match" pattern matching.

2001-11-01 Thread Etienne Marcotte
I know there are some scripts (modules) that uses phonetic matching.. Really great when you try to find a name that can be spelled 7 different ways. I would need to find where I read this, I think it was in Advanced SQL book Etienne Matt Klicka wrote: > I'm looking for some ideas on how to do

"Near match" pattern matching.

2001-11-01 Thread Matt Klicka
I'm looking for some ideas on how to do a "near match" or "fuzzy logic" pattern match. Something that will say, for example, that two strings 80% match. I was thinking that spell checkers and search engines use this kind of thing all the time. Do they have a really repetative match (or a really co