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NAME

Map::Tube::Plugin::FuzzyFind - Map::Tube add-on for finding stations and lines by inexact name.

VERSION

Version 0.08

DESCRIPTION

This is an add-on for Map::Tube to find stations and lines by name, possibly partly or inexactly specified. The module is a Moo role which gets plugged into the Map::Tube::* family automatically once it is installed.

SYNOPSIS

    use strict; use warnings;
    use Map::Tube::London;

    my $tube = Map::Tube::London->new();

    print 'line matches exactly: ',
      scalar(    $tube->fuzzy_find(   search  => 'erloo',
                                      objects => 'lines' ) ), "\n";
    print 'line contains       : ',
      scalar(    $tube->fuzzy_find(   search  => 'erloo',
                                      objects => 'lines',
                                      method  => 'in' ) ), "\n";
    print 'same thing          : ',
      scalar(    $tube->fuzzy_find(              'erloo',
                                      objects => 'lines',
                                      method  => 'in' ) ), "\n";
    print 'same thing          : ',
      scalar(    $tube->fuzzy_find( { search  => 'erloo',
                                      objects => 'lines',
                                      method  => 'in' } ) ), "\n";
    print 'station re          : ',
      join( ' ', $tube->fuzzy_find(   search  => qr/[htrv]er/i,
                                      objects => 'stations' ) ), "\n";
    print 'station re          : ',
      join( ' ', $tube->fuzzy_find(   search  => '[htrv]er',
                                      objects => 'stations',
                                      method  => 'regex' ) ), "\n";
    print 'line fuzzy          : ',
      scalar(    $tube->fuzzy_find(   search  => 'Kyrkle',
                                      objects => 'stations',
                                      method  => 'levenshtein' ) ), "\n";

METHODS

fuzzy_find(%args)

Find a tube line or station by some pattern, which may be partly or inexactly specified. In array context, a (possibly empty) array of Map::Tube::{Line,Node} objects is returned that matches the pattern. If the matching method employed provides a measure of similarity, the result set will be ordered by decreasing similarity. Otherwise, it will be ordered alphabetically. In scalar context, a Map::Tube::{Line,Node} object (or undef) is returned. In the case of more than one match, the most similar or the alphabetically first match will be returned, as applicable to the matching method.

%args is a hash of optional named parameters to guide actions. It may be specified as a hash or as a reference to a hash. For convenience, the search pattern may be specified as the first argument, outside the hash. While formally all arguments are optional, not specifying a serach pattern will, predictably, not produce any exciting result.

search=...

The pattern to be searched for. It may be a string or a (possibly precompiled) regular expression. The latter requires the matching method (cf. below) to be 'regex'.

objects=...

This specifies whether stations or lines should be found. The value should be either 'lines' or 'stations'. ('nodes' is a synonym for 'stations'.) If it is none of these, then both lines and stations will be searched.

method=...

The method for matching. If this parameter is missing, the default is to use 'regex' if the pattern is a precompiled regex, or 'exact' otherwise. Otherwise, the value should be one of the following.

'exact'

Exact matching will be performed (up to case). This is also the default method if $pattern is a string.

'start'

The given string pattern must match at the beginning of the line or station name (up to case).

'in'

The given string pattern must match somewhere within the line or station name (up to case).

're' or 'regex'

The given pattern is matched as a regex (case-insensitively) against the line or station names. The pattern may also be specified as a precompiled regex. In this case, its case sensitivity will be used unaltered.

'soundex'

All names matching according to the soundex algorithm (see Text::Soundex) will be returned. Actually, a variant of DEK's original algorithm is used which also tries to cope with non-ASCII characters. It works well only for English-like words.

'metaphone'

All names matching according to the Metaphone algorithm (see Text::Metaphone) will be returned. This is a method that strives to be "a modern version of soundex". It is also tuned towards English words.

'levenshtein'

The closest names as calculated by the Levenshtein edit distance (see Text::Levenshtein) will be returned.

'ngram'

The closest names as calculated by a comparison of trigrams (see String::Trigram) will be returned. (Future versions may include n-grams for n other than 3).

'fuzzy'

Currently, this is a synonym for 'levenshtein'. This may change in the future.

a code ref

Reserved for future use.

...

Further fuzzy matchers may be added in the future according to interest.

maxdist=...

For some matchers that define a metric on srings (like Levenshtein), this may specify the maximum allowable distance from the pattern specified. The default is half the length of the pattern. If 0 is specified, no limit will be applied. Note that, in array context, this may result in a large number of returned values. In scalar context, a non-null value (including the default value) may lead to no result being returned.

maxsize=...

In array context, this may be used to specify the maximum number of values to return, in order to prevent flooding. There is no default. If 0 is specified, no limit will be applied. In scalar context, this parameter is disregarded.

AUTHOR

Gisbert W. Selke, TapirSoft Selke & Selke GbR, <gws at cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

Map::Tube

CONTRIBUTORS

Thanks to Mohammad S Anwar, author of Map::Tube, for that module, for great feedback, discussions, advice, debugging help, and willingness to refactor his code.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-map-tube-plugin-fuzzyfind at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Map-Tube-Plugin-FuzzyFind. I will be notified and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Map::Tube::Plugin::FuzzyFind

You can also look for information at:

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2015 Gisbert W. Selke, Tapirsoft Selke & Selke GbR

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

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