Program allows duplicate questions with spaces in between

[nus-pe-bot]

Description: The user is able to key in dupliocate questions by varying the spaces between words in the add question platform.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Add questions:

short What is  0.56    n fraction?/1\slash2/fraction/Hard
short What is  0.56       n fraction?/1\slash2/fraction/Hard
short What is  0.56             n fraction?/1\slash2/fraction/Hard

Expected: Program should reject the second and third command.

Actual: Program accepts the second and third commands.

Screenshots:

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_{[original: nus-cs2113-AY2324S1/pe-interim#421] [original labels: type.FunctionalityBug severity.Medium]}

[lisizhuang-0121]

Team's Response

• For the current version of the app, it may not be feasible to use advanced string matching to detect duplicates.
• Detecting duplicates is only meant to be featurefor detecting 100% matches of duplicate questions at this stage.
• Currently the algorithm detects 100% string matches for both question and module to conclude a match.
• Determining the threshold of string correspondence to conclude a match would most likely not be included in the current version.

Duplicate status (if any):

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