Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Can someone help or direct me to the answer?
I have a flattext dbase. I want to let people search by inputing their search strings. But I want to minimize the matches to only 4-5 characters. Ok, that was not very clear.
Let's say the item in my dbase is "saturday".
The input "is today saturd or sunday?" or "atur"
Basically, I want to return "abc4567def" as a match when the users query with either "1234567890" or
"---4567-----" or "4567".
The minimal match function does not seem to fit this case
Thank you for any help. Danny
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Re: help with minimal matches
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 18, 2001 at 13:29 UTC | |
Re: help with minimal matches
by I0 (Priest) on Mar 19, 2001 at 04:53 UTC | |
Re: help with minimal matches
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 19, 2001 at 11:30 UTC |
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