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Looking for way to match variations of text ...

2002-11-16T15:01:54-04:00

Sounds good indeed. Any idea if there's a Tcl implementation somewhere out there? I saw that there was an implementation in C ... now if only I knew C, I could make an eggdrop metaphone.mod

Statistics: Posted by Souperman — Sat Nov 16, 2002 3:01 pm

Looking for way to match variations of text ...

2002-11-01T22:42:56-04:00

For misspellings you can use something like the metaphone algorithm.

Statistics: Posted by stdragon — Fri Nov 01, 2002 10:42 pm

Looking for way to match variations of text ...

2002-11-01T15:42:23-04:00

Yes, I'm probably going to include support for multiple answers as a lot of people have asked about it.

I'm thinking maybe some sort of "dictionary" where I can map words like color=colour and maybe common misspellings as well. Trivia shouldn't be a spelling contest in my opinion, if someone essentially has the right answer, they should get credited for it, not lose out because of minor spelling errors.

Statistics: Posted by Souperman — Fri Nov 01, 2002 3:42 pm

Looking for way to match variations of text ...

2002-10-27T07:29:44-04:00

There are afew ways to to this.

You could use a multiple answer database.

Depending on how you store your questions, you would store multiple answers to the question.

EG

Code:

set Q1 "Orange is a:color,colour,fruit"proc matchanswer {text} {  global Q1  foreach a [split [lindex [split $Q1] 1] ,] {    if {[string tolower $a] == [string tolower $$text]} {      return 1    }  }  return 0}

Statistics: Posted by ppslim — Sun Oct 27, 2002 7:29 am

Looking for way to match variations of text ...

2002-10-27T06:12:18-04:00

Hey guys

I'm rewriting my trivia script and I'm looking for some way to match answers on a less strict basis. Does anyone know of a Tcl or module which will match text for different spelling (e.g. it will see "color" and "colour" as equivalents, etc.)?

Statistics: Posted by Souperman — Sun Oct 27, 2002 6:12 am