[Israel.pm] approximate match (agrep like)

[Yossi.Itzkovich at ecitele.com]

Thanks,  that's the one.

Here are few lines from the documentation:

"String::Approx lets you match and substitute strings approximately. With
this you can emulate errors: typing errorrs, speling errors, closely
related vocabularies (colour color), genetic mutations (GAG ACT),
abbreviations (McScot, MacScot).


NOTE: String::Approx has been designed to work with strings, not with text.
In other words, when you want to compare things like text or source code,
consisting of words or tokens and phrases and sentences, or expressions and
statements, you should probably use some other tool than String::Approx,
like for example the standard UNIX diff(1) tool, or the Algorithm::Diff
module from CPAN, or if you just want the Levenshtein edit distance
(explained below), the Text::Levenshtein module from CPAN. See also
Text::WagnerFischer and Text::PhraseDistance.


The measure of approximateness is the Levenshtein edit distance. It is the
total number of "edits": insertions,


        word world


deletions,


        monkey money


and substitutions


        sun fun


required to transform a string to another string. For example, to transform
"lead" into "gold", you need three edits:


        lead gead goad gold


The edit distance of "lead" and "gold" is therefore three, or 75%.





Thanks again





Yossi





                                                                                                                                    
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String::Approx ?

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> Hi,
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> Is there a way to do approximate matches like agrep ?
> Or
> Is there a way to get "scores" for matching, and thus compare which of
> several strings matches best the given text?
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> Thanks
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> Yossi
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