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Re: Fuzzy searching inside a MySQL DB

From Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA>
Newsgroups comp.databases.mysql, comp.lang.php
Subject Re: Fuzzy searching inside a MySQL DB
Date 2016-03-22 16:35 +0200
Message-ID <56F15847.40804@lisse.NA> (permalink)
References <f6d322a6-47cc-466e-97a7-03c065bf24ec@googlegroups.com> <s2DGy.5057$rQ.4104@fx43.iad>

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And then there is the Levenshtein distance.


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On 2016-03-17 20:53, Lew Pitcher wrote:
[...]

> On Thursday March 17 2016 13:16, in comp.lang.php, "bit-naughty@hotmail.com"
> <bit-naughty@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> If I have a search box on my page which will search through data stored in a
>> MySQL DB, if someone types in "sunflower" into the box, I would like it to
>> match "sunflow3r", if it's stored in the DB, say under the field
>> "typeofflower" - what are my options to do this?
[...]

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Re: Fuzzy searching inside a MySQL DB Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-03-17 14:53 -0400
  Re: Fuzzy searching inside a MySQL DB Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-17 22:13 +0100
  Re: Fuzzy searching inside a MySQL DB Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2016-03-22 16:35 +0200

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