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140byt.es Fuzzy Search - Search a string for one or more terms using fuzzy-matching.

140byt.es

A tweet-sized, fork-to-play, community-curated collection of JavaScript.

How to play

  1. Click the Fork button above to fork this gist.
  2. Modify all the files to according to the rules below.
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All entries must exist in an index.js file, whose contents are

  1. an assignable, valid Javascript expression that
  2. contains no more than 140 bytes, and
  3. does not leak to the global scope.

All entries must also be licensed under the WTFPL or equally permissive license.

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See the 140byt.es site for a showcase of entries (built itself using 140-byte entries!), and follow @140bytes on Twitter.

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140byt.es is brought to you by Jed Schmidt, with help from Alex Kloss. It was inspired by work from Thomas Fuchs and Dustin Diaz.

function(
a, // string to search
b // search terms
){
return a.match( // match all occurrences of each term found in seach terms
RegExp( // convert search string to regular expression
b.trim() // sanitize query
.split(/\s+/) // parse search terms by splitting on whitespace
.map(function(c){ // insert non-word character(s)
return c.split('').join('\\W*') // between each letter of each word
}) // to capture dashes, apostrophes, etc.
.join('|') // rejoin terms with pipe
,'gi') // find multiple occurrences, case-insensitive
)}
function(a,b){return a.match(RegExp(b.trim().split(/\s+/).map(function(c){return c.split('').join('\\W*')}).join('|'),'gi'))}
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2011 YOUR_NAME_HERE <YOUR_URL_HERE>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
{
"name": "Fuzzy Search",
"description": "Search a string for one or more terms using fuzzy-matching.",
"keywords": [
"fuzzy",
"wuzzy",
"wuzza",
"string",
"match"
]
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>Foo</title>
<script>
var q = ' dont leave us ';
var a = [
'Don\'t you forget about me.',
'Leave those kids alone',
'Born in the U.S.A',
'Bombs over Baghdad',
'Us vs. them',
'don\'t leave me',
'u.s.a.! u.s.a.!',
'dont',
'leave',
'us',
'alone'
];
var fuzz = function(a,b){return a.match(RegExp(b.trim().split(/\s+/).map(function(c){return c.split('').join('\\W*')}).join('|'),'gi'))};
a.forEach(function(p) {
console.log(fuzz(p, q));
});
// Expect:
// [ 'Don\'t' ]
// [ 'Leave' ]
// [ 'U.S' ]
// null
// [ 'Us' ]
// [ 'don\'t', 'leave' ]
// [ 'u.s', 'u.s' ]
// [ 'dont' ]
// [ 'leave' ]
// [ 'us' ]
// null
</script>
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maettig commented Apr 16, 2014

Down to 102 bytes:

function(a,b){return a.match(RegExp(b.trim().replace(/\S(?=\S)/g,'$&\\W*').replace(/\s+/g,'|'),'gi'))}

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