As per the subject line, I have to handle searches where several words have been run together like this: "howdoesonehandlethissensibly" What they would like and have unfortunately advertised without consultation is making:

http://greenbrick.foo.bar/ and http://foo.bar/greenbrick bring up required search results if an exact match can't be found, where "green" is in one field and "brick" is in another.

I can easily generate the target strings, but there are caveats about certain words being optional such as "the", and "of".

Also they want fuzzy matches to work sensibly which would be feasible if I wasn't searching across two fields...

It may just be the usual case of not knowing what the proper terminology is but I can't find anything on the subject.

In reply to Splitting strings into words when there are no separators by Anonymous Monk

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