Re: Fuzzy searching inside a MySQL DB

From: Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam_at_lisse.NA>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:35:51 +0200
Message-ID: <56F15847.40804_at_lisse.NA>


And then there is the Levenshtein distance.

el

On 2016-03-17 20:53, Lew Pitcher wrote:
[...]

> On Thursday March 17 2016 13:16, in comp.lang.php, "bit-naughty_at_hotmail.com"
> <bit-naughty_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> 

>> Hi,
>> If I have a search box on my page which will search through data stored in a
>> MySQL DB, if someone types in "sunflower" into the box, I would like it to
>> match "sunflow3r", if it's stored in the DB, say under the field
>> "typeofflower" - what are my options to do this?
[...] Received on Tue Mar 22 2016 - 15:35:51 CET

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