Comments by wimvr (Top 13 by date)

Maybe you can work with the same points system as said before, but then see that f.ex. the search 'Hello everyone' has to have 4 points to be complete (2 points for hello and 2 points for everyone if the word is equal, if the word is soundlike-equal, just give 1 point), searches with less points will be suggestions.

But maybe it's easier to set it in a '.txt' file or a new solution then entering the suggestion here...

Reply on 20 hrs ago:
You will have to add this code:

If words(y).length - 1 = z Then
Exit For
End if

After:
If words(y).Substring(z, 1) = wordToSearch.Substring(z, 1) Then
counter += 1
End If

But before:
Next


Reply on 10 hrs ago:
Maybe that is what you need if you want to give 'sound-like' words. So you will have to set every word to the "Code" and then check every word...

Maybe a fusion of the 2 is the best for you. (replace 'Search in text' into a solution with Soundex)
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The length of the word may be 1 element longer (e.g. a "." or a "?")
=> If the word you want to search is to short (f.ex.: lo won't give results with love) or words that you want to search are longer, you also won't get a result.

This is because you have this command:
0 <= words(y).Length - wordToSearch.Length And (words(y).Length - wordToSearch.Length) < 2

So the words you see in you're sentence must be of an equal length or 1 char longer than the word you are searching. If you set 0 to - 1, you'r word may be 1 item longer than the word you are searching but then you will have to rewrite the rest of you're code.

Also 'leov' won't get you 'love' because this search-solution see to the places of the chars. (The right letter must be on the right place). And even 'loove' won't get you 'love' for the same reasons.

Maybe you van try IO.File.ReadAllLines("c:\test.txt") instead of IO.File.ReadAllLines("c:\test.txt").Split(Chr(10))...
It was already split in lines.

I'm sorry for my mistake :S

I have added it to the solution ;-)
Good luck with it...

I have correct a bit so that the length of a word may be 1 char longer because a "." or "," is also be seen as a letter

I'm sorry, I made this code with notepad (so I didn't thought about the 'count'. It must be .length :S)

In the idea of Dalek Dave ("Either write a file with every possible mis-spelling of every word.")

Maybe you can use NetSpell, that's an open source spellingcorrector. With a bit of work, you can get the corrections of the word with this dll...

This is the error I got:

The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred during the reception.