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Super Simple Fuzzy Search
def is_fuzzy_match(text, query):
# Location of last match.
# Initialize to -1 since no match yet.
# -1 also works well for our usage.
l = -1
t = text.lower()
q = query.lower()
# Iterate over each character in the query.
for c in q:
if c == ' ':
continue
# Check if the character in the query exists in the text.
l = t.find(c, l + 1)
if l == -1:
# No, that character doesn't exist at all.
return False
# If we make it through our check to see if all the characters exist in
# the correct order we can say fuzzily that the query matches that string.
return True
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