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From Christoph Haller
Subject Re: Compare strings which resembles each other
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In response to Compare strings which resembles each other  (Gulshan Babajee <gulshan.babajee@parabolemaurice.com>)
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> Hy, I have a table containing some rows. Each row contains a field name
> which is of type String.
> 
> For example:
> in row1 string1 is "Adieu Poulet",
> in row2 string2 is "Adieu a Poulet",
> in row3 string3 is "Adiue Poulet",
> in row4 string4 is "Adieu Pouleet", etc..
> (That is each string resembles each other a bit, they are somewhat similar
> to each other)
> 
> What type of query should I make so as it return me all these string. That
> is I watn a query which return me strings which are similar or somewhat
> similar to each other.
> 
> thanks in advance
> gulshan
> 
$PGSQLD/contrib/tsearch/README.tsearch 
is your friend. 

Regards, Christoph

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