Re: "Near Miss" error handling?

srs srs <sskaflot@online.no> wrote:
> You could probably use the Soundex algorithm or a variant.


Note that Soundex is tied to the English language. Applying it to words
in any other language produces utter nonsense.
I know of no other-language equivalents of Soundex, and I don't have the
slightest idea how to construct one.


The other point is, if it's mistyped identifiers, you probably don't
want Soundex anyway. Soundex is useful if you want to identify names
that were misheard, which errors in programming are (usually) mistyped,
with totally different error characteristics.
Typical typos are omitted, transposed, or inserted characters. Typical
"hearos" are wrong vowels and partly omitted syllables.


Regards,
Joachim

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