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From: tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy)
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Subject: Re: Soundex ^v^v^ DANGER WILL ROBINSON v^v^v
Summary: My soundex tale of woe...
Keywords: soundex language spanish
Message-ID: <393@oha.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 89 01:53:40 GMT
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In-Reply-To: Message <488@hades.OZ> dated 11 Dec 89 23:17:31 GMT
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In message <488@hades.OZ>, ing@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.

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