[Chicago-talk] Regular expression discussion.

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From: Richard Reina <richard at rushlogistics.com>
To: chicago-talk at pm.org
Sent: Wed, February 2, 2011 7:55:36 AM
Subject: [Chicago-talk] Regular expression discussion.

Tired of shoveling snow. Well sit right down and lets have a regex discussion. I 
have a perl script that at the moment just uses grep to look though text files 
that have been converted from pdf2text to see what sort of documents they are.  
What I am finding however is that a lot of searches fail by just a few 
characters. 

For example, if I am looking for "This first document is a contract between" the 
text string in the file might look like this 

"This tirst document is a coniract betweeo" and the grep search fails. However, 
as you can see these two statements are 93% alike.  Is there a way with perl 
regular expressions to match strings that are say 90, 95 or 98% alike?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Stay Warm!
-- 
Richard Reina
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