Josh Berkus writes:
> For many of my programs, it would be extremely useful to have some form
> of "fuzzy matching" for VARCHAR fields.
For lexical similarity, check out the agrep algorithm. Last I checked the
source code wasn't quite Free(tm), but the algorithm was published in an
academic work.
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