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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!news.mtholyoke.edu!jbotz
  2. From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
  4. Subject: Re: SOUNDEX pattern matching
  5. Date: 23 Jan 1993 16:18:58 -0500
  6. Organization: Mount Holyoke College
  7. Lines: 9
  8. Sender: news@mtholyoke.edu
  9. Message-ID: <1jsco2INN4dd@slab.mtholyoke.edu>
  10. References: <1jfjejINNm1q@fernwood.mpk.ca.us> <1452@ares.edsr.eds.com> <1993Jan23.025720.1005@Happy-Man.com> <1993Jan23.184532.4933@netcom.com>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: slab.mtholyoke.edu
  12. Keywords: soundex, perl
  13.  
  14. In article <1993Jan23.184532.4933@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
  15. >Soundex is very useful.  It's used almost exclusively for English proper
  16. >names, I believe.
  17.  
  18. Uh, that makes it pretty useless in the USA and elsewhere in the world
  19. except England.  
  20. -- 
  21. Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
  22. Northampton, MA, USA
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