4 Mar
2002
4 Mar
'02
11:07 a.m.
3. Soundex searches (ie searching for elefant will turn up elephant results)
Ohh yeah, I know the librarians at HLT would love that
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/lib/Text/Soundex.html http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=soundex Have some info on this -- at least something exists already. Knuth's Art of Computer Programming apparently has info on it in Vol. 3. Only real issue with it is US-English bias, apparently. It was originally created for indexing immigration records where original spelling was phonetic by an English-language listener, AFAICR. Nick