Re: Determining the similarity between a user supplied short piece of text (between 5 and 15 characters) and a list of similar length text items.
| From: | tedd | Date: | Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:17:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Determining the similarity between a user supplied short piece of text (between 5 and 15 characters) and a list of similar length text items. | ||
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At 12:09 PM -0400 7/15/10, Daniel P. Brown wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:54, Richard Quadling <rquadling@gmail.com> wrote:What would one use to have MySQL do the heavy lifting here? In other words, are there similar MySQL functions? Cheers, tedd PS: I thought of this Friday, but finally got my fingers to work today. -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.comI'm looking for is a way to compare what they've entered against a known list and to provide my 10 best guesses.Look into the following functions and families:levenshtein() similar_text()