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  From: Dan Kortschak <dan.kortschak@adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:48:52 +1030 (CST)

sloppy grep in perl?

Hi Everyone, is there someway I can get a grep-like commannd in perl that
will match with a relaxed attitude towards mismatches and/or
insertions/deletions where I specify.
So, say I have a subpattern that may include errors, I can let a match
still happen in for the whole.

eg (making up a syntax as I go along). /(fao){1,0,0}/ would match foo as
{1,0,0} specifies allow one mismatch and /(fooo){0,1,0}/ would also match
foo as {0,1,0) specifies allow one insertion, etc.

thanks
Dan


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