String::Nysiis Nysiis (NNew York State Identification and Intelligence System) phonetic encoding algorithm. Similar in nature to the Soundex, Metahpone, and DoubleMetaphone algorithms. use String::Nysiis qw(nysiis); my $enc = nysiis($string); print nysiis('Larry'),"\n"; # should print LARY Any advice on name/content/etc? Thanks for your time, Kyle R. Burton KRBURTON -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Of course power tools and alcohol don't mix. Everyone knows power tools aren't soluble in alcohol... -- Crazy Nigel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.voicenet.com/~mortis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------