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Great thanks for your helpful advice and suggestions.

I intended to use the module for a web-based search function for products. So if a user types a search string that is close to one of the products, then that product name will be suggested to the user. Since more than one match may be returned, I guess I will display the matched products as suggestions.

Would that be considered appropriate in your opinion?

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Re^5: Getting matched word from String::Approx
by ww (Archbishop) on Dec 30, 2015 at 18:45 UTC

    Depends on your definition of "appropriate and -- if you're writing this for a third party, what the third party considers "appropriate."

    Matches such as you listed don't give me any heartburn... except, that is, the annoyance which grows out of getting [some|many|mostly} irrelevant responses to straightforward search terms.

    And there are obvious approximate matches that may annoy some of your hypothetical users. But stop without reading more if scatological phrases bother you.

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    And what if your user-entered word matches something offensive in another language? These are just a few of the issues you need to resolve.



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      Thanks for responding, ww.

      I don't really know but I suspect a response that suggests possible words of the mistyped word is more helpful that one than one that says "Your search string does not match any product.", for example. Especially if the user doesn't know the exact spelling of the word?

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