I think it's a tool that is overlooked because it's kind of forgotten. But you're right about the crazy spellings for names and SoundEx is very handy.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert Berry" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 7:05 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fw: Universal Search Form :I used soundex in a recent search form. It works well, particularly for : names that have "interesting" spelling these days. : Albert : : --- RBASE-L ================================================ TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: Send a plain text email to [email protected] (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n (where n is the number of days). In the message body, place any text to search for. ================================================
