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author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
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15261 | 1 ;;; soundex.el --- implement Soundex algorithm |
5995 | 2 |
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
4 | |
5 ;; Author: Christian Plaunt <chris@bliss.berkeley.edu> | |
6 ;; Maintainer: FSF | |
7 ;; Keywords: matching | |
8 ;; Created: Sat May 15 14:48:18 1993 | |
9 | |
10 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
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24 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, | |
25 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. | |
5995 | 26 |
27 ;;; Commentary: | |
28 | |
29 ;; The Soundex algorithm maps English words into representations of | |
30 ;; how they sound. Words with vaguely similar sound map to the same string. | |
31 | |
32 ;;; Code: | |
33 | |
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34 (defvar soundex-alist |
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35 '((?B . "1") (?F . "1") (?P . "1") (?V . "1") |
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36 (?C . "2") (?G . "2") (?J . "2") (?K . "2") (?Q . "2") (?S . "2") |
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37 (?X . "2") (?Z . "2") (?D . "3") (?T . "3") (?L . "4") (?M . "5") |
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38 (?N . "5") (?R . "6")) |
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39 "Alist of chars-to-key-code for building Soundex keys.") |
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5995 | 41 (defun soundex (word) |
42 "Return a Soundex key for WORD. | |
43 Implemented as described in: | |
44 Knuth, Donald E. \"The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3: Sorting | |
45 and Searching\", Addison-Wesley (1973), pp. 391-392." | |
46 (let* ((word (upcase word)) (length (length word)) | |
47 (code (cdr (assq (aref word 0) soundex-alist))) | |
48 (key (substring word 0 1)) (index 1) (prev-code code)) | |
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49 ;; once we have a four char key, we're done |
5995 | 50 (while (and (> 4 (length key)) (< index length)) |
51 ;; look up the code for each letter in word at index | |
52 (setq code (cdr (assq (aref word index) soundex-alist)) | |
53 index (1+ index) | |
54 ;; append code to key unless the same codes belong to | |
55 ;; adjacent letters in the original string | |
56 key (concat key (if (or (null code) (string= code prev-code)) | |
57 () | |
58 code)) | |
59 prev-code code)) | |
60 ;; return a key that is 4 chars long and padded by "0"s if needed | |
61 (if (> 4 (length key)) | |
62 (substring (concat key "000") 0 4) | |
63 key))) | |
64 | |
65 ;(defvar soundex-test | |
66 ; '("Euler" "Gauss" "Hilbert" "Knuth" "Lloyd" "Lukasiewicz" | |
67 ; "Ellery" "Ghosh" "Heilbronn" "Kant" "Ladd" "Lissajous") | |
68 ; "\n Knuth's names to demonstrate the Soundex algorithm.") | |
69 ; | |
70 ;(mapcar 'soundex soundex-test) | |
71 ;("E460" "G200" "H416" "K530" "L300" "L222" | |
72 ; "E460" "G200" "H416" "K530" "L300" "L222") | |
73 | |
18383 | 74 (provide 'soundex) |
75 | |
5995 | 76 ;; soundex.el ends here |