Is there a good way to identify a word, even if it's misspelled in javascript? [closed]

Question

I have a bunch of words (mostly locations, like Stockholm and London) and a bunch of strings. like "I want to go from stockholm to london". I want to find out what words are in what strings.

I currently use .indexOf to perform this task.

Is there a library, method, function etc, in javascript that identifies misspelled versions of words?

Answer 1

https://github.com/epeli/underscore.string#readme

Check out the levenshtein _.levenshtein(string1, string2) distance function. It can be used to calculate the distance between too strings.

Answer 2

I found this JS library http://www.javascriptspellcheck.com/ that is supposed to check spelling in several languages

Answer 3

After reading the above I'm not sure if I'm exactly clear on what you are trying to do... but regarding your final question about identifying words which are incorrectly spelled -- I'd take a look at java script spell check. And as a side note.. Often people try and use soundex when they want to count words which are spelled both correctly and incorrectly.