[Ferret-talk] Similar words

[Julio Cesar Ody]

> Ideally I'd like to get the number of matches for those similar words, but I
> know I could just do a search for each of those to get it.

And I think it might have to boil down to that really. If you want to
get a the *number of results* for 'transferase' when someone searches
for 'transferaze', then it means you'll need to hit the index once
more with 'transferase' in separate.


On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Robert Hulme <hulme at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> Is there a way to get a list of similar words to the ones a user has
> searched for?
>
> So if they search for (in my case) transferaze which has no matches I can
> get back an array like this ['transferase'] ?
>
> I know I can just add ~ on the end to make it fuzzy, but what I'd like is to
> be able to say "Sorry, no matches for 'transferaze'. Did you mean
> 'transferase' (310 matches)?"
>
> Ideally I'd like to get the number of matches for those similar words, but I
> know I could just do a search for each of those to get it.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> -Rob
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