> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Felix Geerinckx wrote:
> >
> > on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:11:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harry
> > Jackson) wrote:
> >
> > > What I would like to know is if there are any modules
> > > that can find similar matches in this data (soundex in Oracle is
> > > not quite up to the task).
> >
> > Have you already checked out
> >
> > http://search.cpan.org/author/MARKM/Text-Soundex-2.20/Soundex.pm
> > http://search.cpan.org/author/JHI/String-Approx-3.19/Approx.pm
>
> And also:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/author/MSCHWERN/Text-Metaphone-1.96/Metaphone.pm
Cheers for the ideas. I was not aware that these existed. I do not think
that they are going to achieve what I need. I am going to write a partial
matching script tailored to what I need. I have had several ideas on how to
do it but we will see what happens when I try to impliment it.
H
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