Re: Fuzzy search

[Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>]

On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Aaron Brown wrote:

> Jeff Wise wrote:
>
> > Is there a "fuzzy search" function/algorithm available
> > which would show these strings as "close to being equal"?
>
> There's a technique called stemming that does at least some
> of what you want:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming

Another one of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance