fuzzyMatch

The best match for a query in a list.

Details #

fuzzyMatch(query, list) ranks the list the way the command palette ranks its rows (a prefix beats the start of a word, beats text inside a word, beats letters in order) and returns the best as a record with item, index (counting from 0) and score, or nothing when no item matches. Case and accents are ignored. A query of several words needs every word to match.

Parameters #

Takes 2 arguments. {{ fuzzyMatch(text, b) }}

Examples #

fuzzyMatch("sett", ["Open Settings", "Settings", "Quit"]).item

→ Settings

fuzzyMatch(name, appNames).index

→ 1

Sample variable	Value
`appNames`	`["Safari", "Terminal", "Mail"]`
`name`	`term`

Gotchas #

An empty query matches nothing.
Items that are not text are matched by their text.