# Word-by-word match **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [June 1, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/word-by-word-match/82185 "2025-06-01T23:00:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/dias/32/75988_2.png) [@dias](https://community.glideapps.com/u/dias)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/word-by-word-match/82185/1 "2025-06-01T23:00:04Z")
Hey there folks! I need help with a little matching system that matches words individually. **Preferred system:** “How to make delicious **lasagna** ” & “Homemade **lasagna** recipe” = match, both have **lasagna**. At the moment, I’ve tried using split texts, but they didn’t really work. If the words aren’t in the exact same order, it won’t match. **Current system:** “How to find all **Barn Finds** ” & “All **Barn Finds** in X Game” ≠ match, even though both have **Barn Finds**. Is there a way to implement the preferred system in Glide? Thanks, — Dias ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/word-by-word-match/82185/2 "2025-06-01T23:44:29Z")
I think your problem has two sides to it: - Your “keyword” sometimes has 1 word (lasagna), some other times may have 2 words (Barn Finds). Do you have a list of these anywhere? - You also want to match Finds Barn with Barn Finds based on your “in the exact same order” part. Is it the case? ---
**Author:** ![dias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/dias/32/75988_2.png) [@dias](https://community.glideapps.com/u/dias)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/word-by-word-match/82185/3 "2025-06-01T23:48:13Z")
The keywords are based on user input, so we can’t make a set list of keywords, they always vary—now for the “Barn Finds” part the exact order doesn’t matter, I need it to match the words “Barn” and “Finds” no matter the position in the string (e.g. “ **Barn Finds** ”, “ **Barn** & **Finds** ” & “ **Finds Barn** ” should match) ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/word-by-word-match/82185/4 "2025-06-02T00:48:03Z")
But how do you single out the “Barn Finds” from the user input? ---
**Author:** ![dias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/dias/32/75988_2.png) [@dias](https://community.glideapps.com/u/dias)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/word-by-word-match/82185/5 "2025-06-02T00:56:39Z")
We don’t single out specific terms—we take a title (e.g. “How to find all Barn Finds in X game”), remove filler words (how, to, in, all, X game (already added as a parameter)) leaving us with a cut down version (find Barn Finds) and then what we’d like to do is to find other entries that use the same words somewhere in the title, like this: User input: “find Barn Finds” Entry 1: “discover **Barn Finds** ” Entry 2: “ **Finds** **Barn** unlockables” Entry 3: “ **find** cars” If you know how Google autocomplete works, it’s similar to that. In summary, we’d like to take the words from a cut down version of the user input and then match each one individually to other entries, no matter their position in the entry. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/word-by-word-match/82185/6 "2025-06-02T01:52:09Z")
> [@dias](#): > > we take a title (e.g. “How to find all Barn Finds in X game”), remove filler words (how, to, in, all, X game (already added as a parameter)) leaving us with a cut down version (find Barn Finds) Do you already have logic in place to do the above? > [@dias](#): > > In summary, we’d like to take the words from a cut down version of the user input and then match each one individually to other entries, no matter their position in the entry. I think I would use JavaScript. Pass two parameters: - a comma separated list of search terms - the string to be searched If you’re not familiar with JavaScript, ChatGPT is your friend 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/dias/32/75988_2.png) [@dias](https://community.glideapps.com/u/dias)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/word-by-word-match/82185/7 "2025-06-02T15:56:34Z")
I do! I’ll see what I can do with JavaScript.