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Originally Posted by bigearsbilly
I think you need to define what you need more precisely.
sudanese maps also to sudan? also to suda? sud?
that doesn't make sense to me.
Location? as in line number?
sounds like perl to me. There is a perl soundex module.
It could be but I'm not very experienced with Perl.
I want to be able to pass a string to a script that would
look for data in a file that looks almost like the string that
was passed.
I pass this string to the script: Smithsonian
Somewhere in my file there is a line: Dobbs Smith
I want to have the script to be able to send the whole line to standard
output. (Kind of like what egrep does)
I have a soundex function in my database. I'm going to use that first
and see what happens.
I would still like to hear if there are some other options as well.
(If I was able to explain myself clearly)
Thanks!