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- ;;; soundex.el --- implement Soundex algorithm
-
- ;; Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- ;; Author: Christian Plaunt <chris@bliss.berkeley.edu>
- ;; Maintainer: FSF
- ;; Keywords: matching
- ;; Created: Sat May 15 14:48:18 1993
-
- ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-
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-
- ;;; Commentary:
-
- ;; The Soundex algorithm maps English words into representations of
- ;; how they sound. Words with vaguely similar sound map to the same string.
-
- ;;; Code:
-
- (defvar soundex-alist
- '((?B . "1") (?F . "1") (?P . "1") (?V . "1")
- (?C . "2") (?G . "2") (?J . "2") (?K . "2") (?Q . "2") (?S . "2")
- (?X . "2") (?Z . "2") (?D . "3") (?T . "3") (?L . "4") (?M . "5")
- (?N . "5") (?R . "6"))
- "Alist of chars-to-key-code for building Soundex keys.")
-
- (defun soundex (word)
- "Return a Soundex key for WORD.
- Implemented as described in:
- Knuth, Donald E. \"The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3: Sorting
- and Searching\", Addison-Wesley (1973), pp. 391-392."
- (let* ((word (upcase word)) (length (length word))
- (code (cdr (assq (aref word 0) soundex-alist)))
- (key (substring word 0 1)) (index 1) (prev-code code))
- ;; once we have a four char key, we're done
- (while (and (> 4 (length key)) (< index length))
- ;; look up the code for each letter in word at index
- (setq code (cdr (assq (aref word index) soundex-alist))
- index (1+ index)
- ;; append code to key unless the same codes belong to
- ;; adjacent letters in the original string
- key (concat key (if (or (null code) (string= code prev-code))
- ()
- code))
- prev-code code))
- ;; return a key that is 4 chars long and padded by "0"s if needed
- (if (> 4 (length key))
- (substring (concat key "000") 0 4)
- key)))
-
- ;(defvar soundex-test
- ; '("Euler" "Gauss" "Hilbert" "Knuth" "Lloyd" "Lukasiewicz"
- ; "Ellery" "Ghosh" "Heilbronn" "Kant" "Ladd" "Lissajous")
- ; "\n Knuth's names to demonstrate the Soundex algorithm.")
- ;
- ;(mapcar 'soundex soundex-test)
- ;("E460" "G200" "H416" "K530" "L300" "L222"
- ; "E460" "G200" "H416" "K530" "L300" "L222")
-
- ;; soundex.el ends here
-