in reply to Searching for a word that may only exist in part

Are there constraints on how much can be missing? Do you expect that the part that remains will be unique? Will the part that matches match exactly (it's not a fuzzy match)? If it's not unique I presume that a longest match is a best match. Are there any other factors that may help constrain the search?

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
  • Comment on Re: Searching for a word that may only exist in part

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: Searching for a word that may only exist in part
by seaver (Pilgrim) on Oct 18, 2006 at 22:14 UTC
    Good question, I forgot to add that if I do not find the whole word within a sequence and start truncating the word, then it can only match at either end of a sequence and not within.

    In other words, I am looking for an exact match. The only constraint is that I'd want at least 3 consecutive letters to match.

    Thanks
    Sam

[reply]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom