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Alien phonetic search
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From
27/12/2005 11:08:19
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
To
27/12/2005 10:41:51
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01080966
Message ID:
01080980
Views:
9
>Hi..
>
>Is there any solution on matter of searching across table for similar names..
>
>soundex() and DIFFERENCE() works fine for english.. And, not so fine for foreign languages (as portuguese) because the phonetic spelling is diferent
>
>On PHP we see a good one that returns similar names on a search criteria..
>
>TIA
>
>Claudio

VFP works only for English; I think you must create, or search for, some UDF that does something similar for Portuguese. The idea is to assign the same digits to similar-sounding consonants. Soundex() does not include vowels.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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