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- From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: SOUNDEX pattern matching
- Keywords: soundex, perl
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.184532.4933@netcom.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 18:45:32 GMT
- References: <1jfjejINNm1q@fernwood.mpk.ca.us> <1452@ares.edsr.eds.com> <1993Jan23.025720.1005@Happy-Man.com>
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- In article <1993Jan23.025720.1005@Happy-Man.com> Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com
- writes:
- >Before we get too far re-posting soundex code, let me ask another
- >question: I tried using this thing and found it pretty useless.
- >What's it good for? I tried to use it to find names, and it was
- >just awful at it! Is anyone at all using this for anything real
- >today, or is it a clever idea that didn't quite work?
-
- I haven't used the Perl version, but I wrote versions in SAS and REXX which
- I used extensively at my previous job (in a phone-book application).
- Soundex is very useful. It's used almost exclusively for English proper
- names, I believe.
-
- It wouldn't be useful to you if everyone who uses your program is a perfect
- speller, and it would be less useful if all of the words you needed to look
- up were common (and therefore likely to be spelled correctly).
-
- Something like soundex is used by Directory Assistance and by spell check
- programs.
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