Richard MacLemale wrote:
> I know that several people are working on their own on a
> spell check engine for MetaCard.
[snip]
Its a good algorithm, but I think it could be simplified a bit.
Try:
function soundex thisWord
-- returns less any vowels, near-vowels and
-- duplicate characte
It appears that on 1/16/00 5:18 PM, Richard MacLemale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>function soundex thisWord
> put char 1 of thisWord into thisWord2
> repeat with j = 2 to (the number of chars of thisWord)
>if char j of thisWord = char j+1 of thisWord then next repeat
>if (char j of thisW
I know that several people are working on their own on a spell check engine
for MetaCard. I too have been doing this, and here's an idea worth sharing
- my own version of "soundex".
The phone company uses something called a soundex to match names that sound
alike, and basically what it does is a
