Problem 44541. Arrange the names in alphabetical order (2)
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What I am struggling with (for a project) is code that does fuzzy matching. Sometimes, I have lists of names of which some are misspelled by one or more characters, and for some, the first name is listed first, for others last, the intermediates 'van', 'von der', etc. are used or not, before the last name, or separated, or at the end, and still I'd like to match the names to the most likely ones in two lists (given a certain threshold when they are really different).
Your project sounds both interesting & tricky. I have created one more problem that may interest you in that respect, namely Problem 44383. I guess it is vaguely like fuzzy matching, but with sentences (rather than names). There was also Problem 93 in the Cody Challenge.
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