It seems that your "fuzzy" regex isn't much different from just
using dot and the length of the target. That is:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use lib '.';
use Regexp::Approx 'fuzzy_qr';
use re 'eval';
while(<DATA>) {
chomp;
print "Using '$_' as fuzzy component:\n";
my $fuzzy_part = fuzzy_qr( $_ );
my $rx = qr/((?:$fuzzy_part\s)?\w+\d)$/;
if ( "5678 DELAWARE AVENUE AOT 123" =~ $rx ) {
print "\tRX Match: $1\n";
}
my $really_fuzzy = '.{' . length($_) . '}';
my $rfx = qr/((?:$really_fuzzy\s)?\w+\d)$/;
if ( "5678 DELAWARE AVENUE AOT 123" =~ $rfx ) {
print "\tRFX Match: $1\n";
}
}
__END__
APT
XXX
^%@#!(
fuzzy matches anything?
x
# output:
Using 'APT' as fuzzy component:
RX Match: AOT 123
RFX Match: AOT 123
Using 'XXX' as fuzzy component:
RX Match: AOT 123
RFX Match: AOT 123
Using '^%@#!(' as fuzzy component:
RX Match: UE AOT 123
RFX Match: UE AOT 123
Using 'fuzzy matches anything?' as fuzzy component:
RX Match: 678 DELAWARE AVENUE AOT 123
RFX Match: 678 DELAWARE AVENUE AOT 123
Using 'x' as fuzzy component:
RX Match: T 123
RFX Match: T 123