Levenshtein distance in regular expression

levenshtein-distance, regex

Solution

is there possiblity how to include levenshtein distance in regular expression query?

No, not in a sane way. Implementing - or using an existing - Levenshtein distance algorithm is the way to go.

Problem

Is it possible to include Levenshtein distance in a regular expression query? (Except by making union between permutations, like this to search for "hello" with Levenshtein distance 1: ``` .ello | h.llo | he.lo | hel.o | hell. ``` since this is stupid and unusable for larger Levenshtein distances.)

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