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Soundex

Compute the soundex of a string

Declaration

Source position: strutils.pp line 113

function Soundex(

  const AText: string;

  ALength: TSoundexLength

):string;

function Soundex(

  const AText: string

):string;

Arguments

AText

  

Text to compute soundex of

ALength

  

Length of the soundex

Function result

String with the soundex code of the original string.

Arguments

AText

  

Text to compute soundex of

Description

Soundex computes a soundex code for AText. The resulting code will at most have ALength characters. The soundex code is computed according to the US system of soundex computing, which may result in inaccurate results in other languages.

Note that AText may not contain null characters.

Errors

None.

See also

SoundexCompare

  

Compare soundex values of 2 strings.

SoundexInt

  

Soundex value as an integer.

SoundexProc

  

Default AnsiResemblesText implementation.

SoundexWord

  

Calculate a word-sized soundex value

SoundexSimilar

  

Check whether 2 strings have equal soundex values


Documentation generated on: Nov 16 2015