Hi, This algorithm is useful for search.
Imagine that you go to a hospital with an urgent problem, people are in a hurry, they need to find you super fast, someone dictates the name and someone else searches for it to find if you have no allergies. In this situation there is no time to think whether he mentioned "Lucas" or "Lukasz". Hence, the soundex search :). Doru On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.ber...@me.com> wrote: > Hi Gareth! > > I went through the Wikipedia article. I cannot figure out what are the > applications of this algorithm. > Just wondering > > Cheers, > Alexandre > > Le 24-08-2014 à 14:46, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> a écrit : > > superb attitude! > > Stef > > On 24/8/14 16:22, Gareth Cox wrote: > > Hi all > > As part of a recent project I was asked to create a small soundex thingy. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex > > I told the company that I'd do it but it'd be opensource and I'd give it > to the community. > They agreed so here it is! > You can find it here http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~riverdusty/SXSoundEx > Hope it'll be useful for someone. > > Regards > > -- > Gareth Cox > IT Manager/Developer > Inspired Org (PTY) Ltd > email: gar...@inspired.org > tell: +27 (0)21 531 5404 > cell: +27 (0)78 374 9035 > > > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
