Hi Frank.
When you say not cheap.....waht ballpark are you talking about ?
Regards,
Gerard




>>Hi.
>>Anybody know if a 'Fuzy Search' can be done in Foxpro.
>>Not exactly sure what is a Fuzzy Search but a few people have requested it .
>>Regards,
>>Gerard
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>Hi Gerard,
>
>I did some research into this relatively recently. Here are some sites with algorithms that might help:
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>http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/SoundEx1/SoundEx1.htm
>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~ImproveSoundex
>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~MetaphoneImplementation-SoundexAlternative
>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~DoubleMetaphone-SoundexAlternative
>
>Now, having said that, :) I found they were all too slow for my purpose (searching through a huge database for possible matches). I ended up looking at tools like dtSearch and Netrics Search Server, both of which did admirable jobs, but both of which weren't cheap. My client decide Netrics was the one they wanted so I implemented the solution using that.