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Use for generic string matching that may be exact substring matching (though then prefer the tag `exact-string-matching`), may be matching to a regular expression, or may be approximate matching (e.g. finding substrings within a given Levenshtein distance of a reference string)

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A fuzzy string matching algorithm for finding all occurrences from a set of strings in a lar...

I have thousands of documents, and a term list with thousands of entries. The entries in the term list range in length from an acronym of two characters to a 14-word phrase with 96 characters. I would …