mbeals Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 I have an email parsing script based in php that rips apart standard formatted email and then writes the results to a database and to a splunk log. One of th issues I'm facing is that one of the fields has about 6 possible values, which users keep misspelling. This is screwing up my stats, as I have occurrences for a single instance spread out over several just because it's spelled wrong. So, before I start writing some crazy regex to match common letter combos, is there an easier way? Is there a way to use something like pspell with a custom wordlist...or better yet...values pulled from a database? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes1890 Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 ^ Just use a dropdown list with the 6 possible answers in the dropdown list. That way, it's never misspelled, and you get your answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbeals Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 I would, but I don't have control of the form being submitted. The emails are coming from a tech support call center. I've worked with them to standardize as much as I can, and I've built that regex accordingly, but there are a few fields that have to be hand typed. It also needs to be dynamic so when the list of possibilities changes in our system (which it will do on a weekly basis), it will pick up the changes from a central source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes1890 Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Do you have an example? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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