lubich@ethz.UUCP (Hannes Lubich) (03/15/90)
Hi, a while ago somebody posted the C source for the soundex algorithm to the net (don't remember the newsgroup). Has anybody saved this and could send me a copy? I'm also interested in getting other pattern matching algorithms (I already got Bickel's name comparison algorithm and the Ratcliff/Obershelp pattern matching). CHeers --HaL -- ~ UUCP/Usenet : {known world}!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!lubich ~ or : lubich@ethz.uucp ~ CSNET/ARPA/BITNET : lubich@inf.ethz.ch / lubich%inf.ethz.ch@relay.cs.net ~ The usual disclaimer : No, it wasn't me, somebody must have used my account.
rk@cs.strath.ac.uk (Richard Kingslake) (03/16/90)
In article <3901@ethz.UUCP> lubich@bernina.ethz.UUCP (Hannes Lubich) writes: >a while ago somebody posted the C source for the soundex algorithm to >the net (don't remember the newsgroup). Has anybody saved this and could >send me a copy? > >-- >~ UUCP/Usenet : {known world}!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!lubich >~ or : lubich@ethz.uucp >~ CSNET/ARPA/BITNET : lubich@inf.ethz.ch / lubich%inf.ethz.ch@relay.cs.net Yes, I have a copy. Mail me if you would like it. I tried to reply direct to you but my mail got bounced at cern "Service not available", so if you DO reply, please make sure that you give me a reachable address Richard Kingslake JANET: rk@uk.ac.strath.cs ARPA: rk@cs.strath.ac.uk UUCP: !seismo!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!rk or rk@strath-cs.uucp
Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM (03/17/90)
Soundex is trivial; you don't need somebody else's implementation. Go for it. Look in the X.V11R4 tape, the Andrew contribution (under contrib/toolkits/andrew, on the fourth X Consortium tape), and check out the fuzzy-name matching facilities in software in the andrew/overhead/util/{hdrs,lib} libraries. You get a Soundex derivative that works better, at the very least. Craig