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NAME

Text::DoubleMetaphone_PP - A Phonetic Algorithm to Encode Words

SYNOPSIS

  use Text::DoubleMetaphone_PP qw ( double_metaphone_pp );
  my($code1, $code2) = double_metaphone_pp("Word");

DESCRIPTION

This module is a pure perl implimentation of a "sounds like" algorithm based off of Lawrence Phillips' Double Metaphone method which, was published in the June, 2000 issue of C/C++ Users Journal. The Double Metaphone algorithm produce two encodings for each word passed to it creating a more accurate representation of words that may be pronounced in multiple ways. For additional information about the Double Metaphone algorithm refer to: http:/en.wikipedia.ort/wiki/Metaphone

EXPORT

SEE ALSO

Philips, Lawrence. C/C++ Users Journal, June, 2000. Philips, Lawrence. Computer Language, Vol. u, No. 12 (December), 1990. aspell.net/metaphone

AUTHOR

Theodore Klepin

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2012 by Theodore Klepin <mods@emetbeshem.com<gt>. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.14.2 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.