search for: hamberg

...t; it should return only Washington but not Washington, D.C. But it also could be that the list contains only "Hamburg" but the record I am searching for is "Hamburg OTM" and then we still want to find "Hamburg". Or maybe the list contains "Hamburg" and "Hamberg" but we are searching for "Hamburg" and thus only this should this one should be returned. agrep() returns all "close" matches but unfortunately does not return the degree of closeness otherwise selection would be easy. Is there such a function already implemented? Thanks...