Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle.server:45297 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!news.new-york.net!uunet!ffx.uu.net!in4.uu.net!news7-gui.server.ntli.net!news-feed.ntli.net!not-for-mail From: Peter Linehan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: SOUNDEX implementation. Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 00:10:06 +0100 Organization: Virgin News Service Lines: 15 Message-ID: <370BE5CE.31C290A@virgin.net> References: <7efuuc$gbk$1@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i586) X-Accept-Language: en Michael McKenna wrote: > > Can someone give a brief explanation--pseudo-code maybe--of how the SOUNDEX > function is > implemented? > > Thanks. Knuth's books 'The Art of Computer Programming' has a good section on the Soundex Algorithim - NB If I remember rightly, Knuth says that there is a patent/copyright on it, so you may not be able to use it commercially. -- Peter Linehan peter_linehan@hotmail.com or c/o p.linehan@virgin.net