On Saturday 11 Jul 2009 9:10:37 am David Zmick wrote:
> I am given a list like:
> 1: JCT BOX JS27 T 88-F-1
> 2: JCT BOX JS-2713 EE-15.2
> 3: JCT BOX JS32 H 116 A C 14.5
> 4: JCT BOX JS28 T 120-N-11
> 5: JCT BOX JS28 T-120-N-11
> 6: JCT BOX JS32 H 116 A C-14.5
> 7: JUNCTION BOX JS32 H 116 A C-14.5
> and i need to find "similar" items, i have already written the part of my
> script to find the similar items, for example, line 4 and 5 are similar
You can pose such questions to "Method FInder" (World Menu->open->Method 
Finder) to discover options. I got a whole bunch of options for:
  'JUNCTION' . 'JCT' . true

See http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1916

HTH .. Subbu