regexp

[Guest]

Hi everyone!!!
I want to find all the words in a text that are different from the one i am
looking for by one letter...

It is hard to explain but maybe an example does the job.

For example, i am looking for the word "working"

These findings will be fine

torking worsing workimg workind
warking worting workong etc. etc.

Is there a way to do it? RegExp or any other means!

 

[Wessel Troost]

I want to find all the words in a text that are different from the one i

am
looking for by one letter...

The regular expression \w? will match any letter 0 or 1 times.

This regular expression might do what you're looking for:

((\w?orking)|(w\w?rking)|(wo\w?king)|
(wor\w?ing)|(work\w?ng)|(worki\w?g)|(workin\w?))

Greetings,
Wessel

 

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

If you are looking for a more "generic" approach that will work on any
word, look into algorithms such as soundex and related techniques. I've
seen several C# examples of soundex and related tricks.

 

[Jani Järvinen [MVP]]

Hello,

here's a link to an implementation that Peter mentioned:

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/soundex.asp

Other implementations exists, too, I'm sure.

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Regards,

Mr. Jani Järvinen
C# MVP
Helsinki, Finland
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http://www.saunalahti.fi/janij/