Re: st: Re: Finding "near"-matches

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I wrote an egen extension for soundex coding and I think I posted it SSC a 
few years ago, but now I can't find it using search.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Newson" <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: st: Re: Finding "near"-matches



> Yhis sounds like a job for something similar to Donald Knuth's soundex 
> algorithm. You can find out more about this at
>
> http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/stg/pub/S/soundex.html
>
> or at
>
> http://us2.php.net/soundex
>
> or at
>
> http://west-penwith.org.uk/misc/soundex.htm
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Roger
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