Fuzzy search (was: Counting words)

[Wilfred Zegwaard (privé)]

Both methodes replace-regexp en count-matches are exact. That is not 
exactly what I want in the end. I'm looking for a type of fuzzy search 
with words which nearly exact. (Like the R statistical fuzzy search).
Eg.: the hero was here
Fuzzy search in the document, and it finds: the hero was there

It almost matches.
This is what I'm looking for. Any functions in Emacs which does the trick?

Wilfred




Wilfred Zegwaard (privé) wrote:
> I found the wordcount thing.
> I mean specific instances of words. The number of times eg that "the" 
> occurs in a text. But I need to search on specific combinations, like 
> "the exact word", but also a fuzzy search on specific combinations.
>
> Not HTML tags, but specific strings that this package that I use calls 
> TAGS and who are easily identifiable with a string or string combination.
>
> Wilfred

Wilfred,

you can use replace-regexp to do this

Try
M-x replace-regexp
\bthe exact phrase\b
\&


\b means word-boundary,
\& means replace with what was found.

This is a bit nasty, but after the regexp-replace has
finished, it should echo "Replaced xx occurrences"
to the minibuffer.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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