On 6 Jul 2011, at 11:23 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > However, when I tried it out I get strange results... > > //someString is set to different strings each time tested > BOOL test = [someString soundsLikeString:@"Face"]; > NSLog(@"sounds like Face: %d",test); > > Place = 0 > Ace = 0 > Mace = 0 > Fake = 1 > Testing = 0 > Brake = 0 > > It would seem something is off to get negatives on Place, Ace & Mace.
Soundex (by design) does an exact match of the first character, and a sort of rough phonetic match of the rest of the string--- it was developed for matching surnames. You probably want a different algorithm if you want Ace to match Place. The Wikipedia article on Soundex has some links that might serve as starting points. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
