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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl:Regex for Search and Replace that has a flexible match Post 302750879 by DGPickett on Wednesday 2nd of January 2013 05:07:58 PM
Old 01-02-2013
There are transforms like soundex that nullify spelling differences.

Regex that tolerates missing or extra every byte of key gets too loose, fast. You might construct an extended regex where for a n byte key, bytes 1 through n only are *, so it matches n-1 bytes.\, e.g., for 'abcd', 'a*bcd|ab*cd|abc*d|abcd*'.

I suppose you could write a scoring system for how many extra or missing in key match, and sort by the score, cut off at an 80% score or something.
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grib_get_data - Print a latitude, longitude, data values list DESCRIPTION
Print a latitude, longitude, data values list USAGE
grib_get_data [options] grib_file grib_file ... OPTIONS
-M Multi-grib support off. Turn off support for multiple fields in single grib message -m missingValue The missing value is given through this option. Any string is allowed and it is printed in place of the missing values. Default is to skip the missing values. -p key[:{s/d/l}],key[:{s/d/l}],... Declaration of keys to print. For each key a string (key:s) or a double (key:d) or a long (key:l) type can be requested. Default type is string. -R out_file_name Redirect the standard output to "out_file_name". Faster than the shell redirect (>) because buffered. -F format C style format for values. Default is "%.10e" -w key[:{s/d/l}]{=/!=}value,key[:{s/d/l}]{=/!=}value,... Where clause. Grib messages are processed only if they match all the key/value constraints. A valid constraint is of type key=value or key!=value. For each key a string (key:s) or a double (key:d) or a long (key:l) type can be specified. Default type is string. -f Force. Force the execution not to fail on error. -G GRIBEX compatibility mode. -7 Does not fail when the message has wrong length -V Version. AUTHOR
This manpage has been autogenerated by Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>from the command line help of grib_get_data. grib_get_data April 2009 GRIB_GET_DATA(1)
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