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- From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: Re: keyword searching algorithm needed
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.005159.14272@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 00:51:59 GMT
- References: <25AUG199207313527@quark2.aero.org>
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- Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
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- Organization: University of Arizona
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- In-Reply-To: lee@quark2.aero.org
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- In article <25AUG199207313527@quark2.aero.org>, lee@quark2 writes:
- >Hi!
- >
- >I am in desperate need of an algorithm that will search a group of character
- >strings for a given substring that I specify. The catch is that if a match
- >isn't found, I need to find "close" or "almost" matches. How close, I don't
- >know yet, but if it is a parameter that I can adjust, it would be great. Does
- >such a beast exist?
-
- Sounds like you want `agrep', which allows searching for close matches.
- Check the comp.sources.misc (? maybe .unix) for full details at your
- favorite archive site (ftp.uu.net is a good one in the US).
-
- --
- Dave Schaumann dave@cs.arizona.edu
-