dwim_match/2

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dwim_match(+Atom1, +Atom2)

True if Atom1 matches Atom2 in the‘Do What I Mean' sense. Both Atom1 and Atom2 may also be integers or floats. The two atoms match if:

They are identical
They differ by one character (spy == spu)
One character is inserted/deleted (debug == deug)
Two characters are transposed (trace == tarce)
‘Sub-words' are glued differently (existsfile == existsFile == exists_file)
Two adjacent sub-words are transposed (existsFile == fileExists)