Calculate Soundex

[csutton]

Does anyone have any vb.net code to calculate a soundex value on a string?

thank you.

 

[humour]

I searched google and found this:

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/algorithms/soundex.asp

Its an interesting article, all the code is included. It kind of disses the value of soundex but the code and article are well written nonetheless.

Cudos to the author.

I would never use it, I have written code that finds duplicate Customer Accounts in my Accounting system based on substrings of a customer name and on the same postal code or tel#.

Might I ask what your application is?

 

[chiph]

Yeah, soundex has problems. It only works for English words (any accented characters are stripped out), and doesn't work for Unicode.

Chip H.


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[csutton]

Hey all,

Thanks for the replies. It is basically to look up basic names, nothing great. It was just an option I wanted to provide. I'll consider the cons and see how it goes.

Thank you very much.