ng-fuzzy-search | Fuzzy-search tool built for emacs-ng | Search Engine library

In trying to rejuvinate code I wrote mostly 14+ years ago. I've come to see that the lovely little setup I wrote then was... lacking in certain places, namely handling user inputs.

Lesson: Never underestimate users ability to inject trash, typos, and dupes past your validators.

The old way is reaching critical mass as there are 470 items in a SELECT dropdown now. I want to reinvent this part of the process so I don't have to worry about it hitting a breaking point.

So the idea is to build a fuzzy search method so that after the typist enters the search string, we check against five pieces of data, all of which reside in the same row.

I need to check the name submitted against the Stage Name, two also-known-as names, as well as their legal name and as a final check against a soundex() index based on their Stage Name (this catches a few spelling errors missed otherwise)

I've tried a complicated block of code to check these things (and it doesn't work, mostly because I think I coded the comparisons too strict) as part of a do/while loop.

In the below, var $Rin would contain the user supplied name.