Regex for possible misspellings in a word

On 10/11/07, leegold58 < goldtechworldpost.com">goldtechworldpost.com> wrote:

Hi,

I wondered if theres a way to make this regex more compact or better.
I want to check for possible misspellings in a word. For example to
match misspellings for "knot" were one character is wrong. So:

((k|w)not)|(k(n|w)ot)|(kn(o|w)t)|(kno(t|w))

Is there a better way?

Thanks,
Lee G.

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On 10/11/07, leegold58 < goldtechworldpost.com">goldtechworldpost.com> wrote:

> > ((k|w)not)|(k(n|w)ot)|(kn(o|w)t)|(kno(t|w))
>
> does this regex equal to &nbsp; (wnot)|(kwot)|(knwt)|(know) ; &nbsp; ??
>

Yes. Thank you.

I wonder if there's a way to make it even shorter?


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