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soundex examples

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  1. $word2find = 'stupid';
  2.  
  3. $words = array(
  4.     'stupid',
  5.     'stu and pid',
  6.     'hello',
  7.     'foobar',
  8.     'stpid',
  9.     'supid',
  10.     'stuuupid',
  11.     'sstuuupiiid',
  12. );
  13.  
  14. while(list($id, $str) = each($words)){
  15.  
  16.     $soundex_code = soundex($str);
  17.  
  18.     if (soundex($word2find) == $soundex_code){
  19.         print '"' . $word2find . '" sounds like ' . $str;
  20.     }
  21.     else {
  22.         print '"' . $word2find . '" sounds not like ' . $str;
  23.     }
  24.  
  25.     print "\n";
  26. }
  27.  
  28. /*
  29. result:
  30.  
  31. "stupid" sounds like stupid
  32. "stupid" sounds not like stu and pid
  33. "stupid" sounds not like hello
  34. "stupid" sounds not like foobar
  35. "stupid" sounds like stpid
  36. "stupid" sounds not like supid
  37. "stupid" sounds like stuuupid
  38. "stupid" sounds like sstuuupiiid
  39. */

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