Fuzzy Matching

[Tim Childs]

Hi

I have searched Google archive but have not found anything about searching
in Excel using "fuzzy matching". Are there any posts on this? One particular
problem is where international alphabet's differ e.g. text may include
accents on letters etc

Thanks in advance

Tim

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
'fuzzy match' leads me at least to the following thread
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=8BA%[email protected]
ger.com

with two possible links for this task

 

[Daniel.M]

Tim,

A Google archive search for "Fuzzy match" produces quite a few hits.
You can also VBA-adapt algorithms from the litterature : search for "Approximate
search matching".

Regards,

Daniel M.

 

[Daniel.M]

algorithms from the litterature : search for "Approximate search matching".

I meant : "approximate string matching"

But close enough probably ;-))

Regards,

Daniel M.

 

[Tim Childs]

Hi

thanks for these links altho' it seems this is a quite tricky area!

all the best

Tim

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
indeed, it is a little bit tricky