Hi, On Saturday, 14. January 2006 18:10, Chris Ridd wrote: > On 14/1/06 2:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And in the same fashion, what to do with approx matches as 2252 does not > > specify a declaration of approx filters ? > > Anything you like. > > Most implementations use something like Soundex, though this works pretty > badly unless the values are English. Actually even with English the results > aren't often that good. Maybe something more perl-ish would be interesting
Regexes ? ;-)) (sn=Schmie?[dt]t?) would match all people called Schmidt, Schmied, Schmitt, ... (the german version of Smith, Smithe, Smyth, Smythe ;-) Peter -- Peter Marschall eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
