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Searching for similar variable - php by stoshrocket on 06-30-2009 at 08:15 PM
I've got a script that searches a simple text files line by line for a stated string, but I also wanted to search for "similar" strings. So, for example, if we had the following in list.txt
code:and "frugle" was seached for, it would return, "did you mean: frig? frag?" or something similar.
frig
frag
brag
grand
train
any ideas how I'd go about it?
RE: Searching for similar variable - php by prashker on 06-30-2009 at 08:41 PM
Do something with similar_text()
PHP code:<?php
$list = file('list.txt');
$string = "dog";
foreach $list as $tree {
similar_text($string, $tree, $percent);
if ($percent > 75) {
echo 'Did you mean' . $tree . '?';
}
}
?>
RE: Searching for similar variable - php by Mike on 06-30-2009 at 08:42 PM
This may help a little (especially the first result): http://www.google.com/search?hl=el&client=firefox...%F4%E7%F3%E7&meta= 
RE: Searching for similar variable - php by stoshrocket on 06-30-2009 at 09:23 PM
Both are perfect, thanks guys!