I'm sure there's a module on CPAN.

But if your query is as simple as only sorting to first 3 letters, then the following may do the trick:

  my @words = qw(sem sema cat semok hgt cato
                 seme cate);
  my %similar = ();
  foreach my $word ( @words )
  {
      push( @{$similar{substr($word,0,3)}}, $word );
  }

  foreach my $prefix ( sort keys %similar )
  {
      print( join( ', ', @{$similar{$prefix}} ) );
      print( "\n" );
  }

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prints:
cat, cato, cate
hgt
sem, sema, semok, seme

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In reply to Re: Finding similar data by monarch
in thread Finding similar data by blackpitch

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