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i need to get some data from database, the problem is that data i search for and query are not indentical. it is books database so the book titles sometimes are not the same. how to match as close as possible with regex?


thanks for helping this noob

So are you using regex to match the data in the database? To match the title of the app window? What are you using it for?

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to match actual data

It wound be next to impossible to design an expression that matches without sample data. If pulling from a database, the idea should be that the title would be in a single field by itself, so not sure where the matching would come into play here.

here is simple example

i have this book in the database "The Go Getter"

how can i verify that this book is in the database "Go-Getter"
basically i need to see is book already in the database

how would you do it?

if you were doing it using a regular expression, it should be something like:

Go[[:space:][:punct:]]Getter

[:space:] = Any whitespace characters (space, tab, NL, FF, VT, CR)
[:punct:] = Punctuation symbols . , " ' ? ! ; : # $ % & ( ) * + - / < > = @ [ ] \ ^ _ { } | ~

Are there some kind of delimiters around the text? I keep picturing you having output similar to something below.

ISBN33749487423 Author,Mike Go Getter, The SKU554564

If you were wanting to grab the whole title and store it in a variable or something, the text around the title could be important.