What kinds of 'errors' are acceptable? Must the length and syntax match but the letters differ? Are missing characters acceptable? Are extra characters acceptable?

Look for the Levenshtein Distance: Text::Levenshtein.

There's also a command-line tool called 'agrep' which may help, even if only to focus your question by reading their documentation and widen your search for other answers.

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