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- From: kd9fb@xnet.com (Peter Mikalajunas)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Phonetic string comparison function needed
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 19:05:34 LOCAL
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- In article <4gf3rh$8vp@soap.news.pipex.net> aai05@dial.pipex.com writes:
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- >Does anyone out there have a phonetic string comparison function, written in C
- >(as opposed to C++) that they could let me have? The sort of thing I'm after is
- >a means of identifying that for example, Smith, Smithe and Smythe are similar
- >and
- >Cat and Dog aren't. I imagine spell checkers do this sort of comparison all the
- >time.
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- Your referring to a soundex algorithm.
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- I believe there is on in Snippets. You can find Snippets on
- any SimTel mirror in /msdos/c/snip9510.zip.
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- Peter Mikalajunas
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