Looking for library to estimate likeness of two strings

[Guilherme Polo]

2008/2/7, agenkin at gmail.com <agenkin at gmail.com>:
> On Feb 7, 2:37 am, "Daniel Fetchinson" <fetchin... at googlemail.com>
>  wrote:
>
> > Hi folks, just went through this thread and a related one from 2006
>  > and I was wondering what the best solution is for using these string
>  > metrics in a database search. If I want to query the database for a
>  > string or something that is close to it (close being defined by one of
>  > the string metrics discussed above) it seems I have to select each and
>  > every word from the database and compare it with the query word which
>  > is very ineffective.
>
>
> I have never used sqlite database, but Postgres has a module that
>  implements levenshtein(), soundex() and metaphone() functions, so you
>  can do something like this:
>
>  SELECT * FROM s WHERE soundex(name) = soundex('john');
>  SELECT * FROM s WHERE difference(name, 'john') > 2;
>
>  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/fuzzystrmatch.html
>

SQLite supports soundex, but it is disabled by default, you need to
compile it with -DSQLITE_SOUNDEX=1

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