Hi,
I have a string array of arbitary length of lets say 14 -
McGee
MacGee
Magee
MacGeady
Mackintosh
McIntosh
Griffin
Griffith
Griffis
Griffey
Grifferty
McGrifferty
O'Griffey
O'Griffin
I want to make it possible for the client to enter a name and for perl to return a match and also similar names. So lets say I enter Griffin, I would like -
Griffin
Griffith
Griffis
Griffey
Grifferty
McGrifferty
O'Griffey
O'Griffin
returned. If I enter MacGee, I would have -

McGee
MacGee
Magee

returned. If I entered McGinley I might get -

McGee
MacGee
Magee
MacGeady
Griffin
O'Griffin

returned. Perhaps this search would work by matching say 50% of the letters in the search string, in order maybe. Any suggestions as to how I might do this? I'm extracting the array as a columb from a mysql database.
Thanks,
Barry.

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