On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 08:47 PM, Boyd Pearson wrote:
can some one explain to me the advantages and disadvantages of using soundex metaphoneFor detailed information, just do a search on metaphone and soundex. There is a lot of information out there. In short, these are algorithms that attempt to work with a word's sounds rather than its actual spelling. They are especially useful for things like surnames where there might be a number of different spellings for a name that all sound the same. Whether this fuzziness is an advantage or a disadvantage depends on the type of material you are dealing with. In terms of performance, the algorithms of course add some overhead.
a link to info is fine - i just don't get it.
Jim
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