https://www.thefinalartefact.xyz/tags/stackoverflow/Recent content in StackOverflow on The Final ArtefactHugoen-gbTue, 29 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.thefinalartefact.xyz/post/why-regex-is-not-fuzzy-matching/Tue, 29 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.thefinalartefact.xyz/post/why-regex-is-not-fuzzy-matching/<p>Recently, I cam across an interesting discussion on StackOverflow^[SO discussion on: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/68182330/1655567"><em>Fuzzy Join with Partial String Match in R</em></a>] pertaining to approach to fuzzy matching tables in R. Good answer contributed by one of the most resilient and excellent contributors to whom I owe a lot of thanks for help suggested relying on regular expression, combining this with basic string removal and transformations like <code>toupper</code> to deterministically match the tables. The solution solved the problem and was accepted.</p>