I have a list of about 1000 group names and I am running the adistr on them as the docs for the fuzzy string matching shows. How do I get only the top twenty results returned in order closest

sub get_fuzzy_match_groupnames( $ )
{
   my @result_array;
   
   
   my $self = shift;
   
   my $dbh = $self->{'dbh'};
   
   my @possibleMatchName;      #holds the groupname
    
   #name not found do approximate string lookup
   my $sqlQuery = "SELECT GroupID,
                          GroupName
                     FROM GROUPINFORMATION
                    WHERE UserID = 0       ";
              
   my $query = $dbh->prepare( $sqlQuery );
   
   $query->execute() || die $dbh->errstr;
   
   while( @result_array = $query->fetchrow_array )
   {
      push( @possibleMatchName, $result_array[1] );         
   }


   my %d;
   @d{@possibleMatchName} = map { abs } adistr( $_[0], @possibleMatchN
+ame );
   my @d = sort { $d{$a} <=> $d{$b} } @possibleMatchName;
   
   if( length( @d ) > 20 )
   {
      return @d[0..20];
   }
   else
   {
      return @d;
   }

   
}

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