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From: SLORES@umiami.miami.edu (Stanislaw L. Olejniczak)
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Subject: Re: Soundex ^v^v^ DANGER WILL ROBINSON v^v^v
Message-ID: <4255@umiami.miami.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 89 03:00:25 GMT
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In article <393@oha.UUCP>, tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes:
> 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.
> ...but our client
> was in (deep) southern California, and *most* of the pupils last names were of
> Spanish derivation!

While the soundex was derived for Anglo-Saxon names, the Florida Cancer
Data System, the Florida State CAncer Registry, is using soundex quite
effectively in their database maintenance; and I don't have to (though I
will :-) )  tell you that Hispanic surnames abound here.

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