Extended #regexps are great for place names like "Wellesley" where you can not remember if it's Welesley, Welleseley, Wellesselley, Welleslley, or Welesslley to save your dadburn life. ;)
@RL_Dane@amin I remember one very early system I worked on (I want to say ICL OfficePower) had soundex search which at the time seemed like magic to me 😲
@RL_Dane@amin IIRC it was another operator, like = or !=, but would convert both sides to a representation of how the word would sound (or all the possible ways, I guess) and then do some form of approximate match. A bit like how ~= means regex match in many places. Now this was 1994-ish, so the transform applied to the text was probably pretty simplistic, but it sticks in my mind for some reason (first job, I guess).
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