Soundex ^v^v^ DANGER WILL ROBINSON v^v^v

[Tony Olekshy]

In message <488 at hades.OZ>, ing at hades.OZ (Ian Gold) writes:
> 
> I am looking for a 'soundex' routine in C (or C++).

Well, someone already posted the routine, but let me relate a little story
to you.  I grabbed a version of the soundex code and added a soundex index
and search capability to a pupil search query in a test scoring application.
Only took an hour.  We thought it pretty cool on our test data, but our client
was in (deep) southern California, and *most* of the pupils last names were of
Spanish derivation!  (PS: the soundex table is for English pronounciation.)

PPS: The soundex tables can, of course, be tuned for pronunciation.
     Watch out for Chinese characters.  Have fun.

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P S: Those ^v^ things are supposed to be Robot moving its arms in and out.

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P S: I never did like that show.

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Yours, etc., Tony Olekshy (...!alberta!oha!tony or tony at oha.UUCP).