Josh,
Have you had a look at the SOUNDEX() function? It returns a code that is based on the phonetics of the word. Therefore Smith and Smythe return the same code.
There's a discussion of this and other phonetic algorithms in a FoxTalk article I wrote. It's available on my
web site.
Cheers,
Andrew
>Hello All:
>
> I'm trying to write an application that takes a user-entered name and matches it with names in a table. If the name isn't found I wan't to try to do an inaccurate match and get a list of names that are 1 or 2 letters different. These are international names which easily have 7 separate words in a name. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do something like this? Thanks in advance.
>
> -Josh
If we were to introduce Visual FoxBase+, would we be able to work from the dotNet Prompt?
From Top 22 Developer Responses to defects in Software
2. "It’s not a bug, it’s a feature."
1. "I thought I fixed that."
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