Aproximative string matching

[Tim Roberts]

"javuchi" <javuchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I'm searching for a library which makes aproximative string matching,
>for example, searching in a dictionary the word "motorcycle", but
>returns similar strings like "motorcicle".
>
>Is there such a library?

There is an algorithm called Soundex that replaces each word by a
4-character string, such that all words that are pronounced similarly
encode to the same string.

The algorithm is easy to implement; you can probably find one by Googling.
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