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riposa:
Hello,

I posted this elsewhere, but the manager told me to post it here, as he also thought it was a good question, and he was also interested in replies. Here is the question...

What editor will search for a name in a file where the name is misspelled, and the editor will give the results of both when the name is spelled correctly, and  also list results of where the name is also not spelled correctly but the software editor is smart enough to make a good guess of the name you wanted along with all the instances where it was misspelled. This would be of great value to me, since I deal with lots of misspelled names, and now with Textpad, all I can do is search twice separately using both the first and last name or only using the first few letters, or clumps of letters in the name that stand out, so it becomes very time consuming and tedious. For instance below, the same name might be misspelled 3 times, 3 different ways. Also some names, like Bella Russian are spelled by sound, like Stahurskaia or Stahurskaya, thus, depending on the original editor, spells names by guessing when such names are not available according to or depending on the word is transliterated from Cyrillic characters.

Is that a brilliant editor out there for this?

For instance, if I search for Luperini, it will bring back, Luporini, Luperin, Loperoni, and so on, it guesses and brings back everything close, or even customize the search more.
When I seach race results to cycling in a given year, there might be 600 times a certain name is listed, but from past years, names are often misspelled, so therefore, I miss all those instances with Textpad. What I need if for the editor to bring back everything that is a reasonable match, close proximity.

thanks,
Bruce

mouser:
I'd really like to hear suggestions for search tools (or text editors with built in multi-file search) which can do such advanced searching based on phonetics or mispelled words, etc.

Darwin:
Won't EditPad do this? It's got built in reg expression searching...

mouser:
we're not talking about regex, we're talking about a smart search that knows how to search for mispelled versions of a word.

Darwin:
OK, I'm obviously out of my depth here. I thought that reg ex searching would allow one to do just what the OP is asking. However, given the fact that I find reg ex to be somewhat mysterious (ie, I have a vague idea of its power and an even vaguer idea of how to write reg ex searches), smart searching would be wonderful  :-[

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