Class Metaphone
Generator function for Soundex strings, according to SuperOffice usage. This is based on Double Metaphone (c) 1998, 1999 by Lawrence Philips, further modified by SuperOffice.
The Soundex string generated here is used for duplicate searching - an exact match of Soundex implies a suspect duplicate of the originals.
Inherited Members
Namespace: SuperOffice.CRM.Globalization
Assembly: SoCore.dll
Syntax
public sealed class MetaphoneMethods
GetMetaphone(String)
Generate the SoSoundex string for the given argument, with the default length
Declaration
public static string GetMetaphone(string inputString)Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| String | inputString | Input string, typically a company name, project name or something like that |
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| String | Resulting variant, with 9 significant characters (the default used in the database) |
GetMetaphone(String, Int32)
Generate the SoSoundex string for the given argument, with an explicit length
Declaration
public static string GetMetaphone(string inputString, int length)Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| String | inputString | Input string, typically a company name, project name or something like that |
| Int32 | length | Desired length of compressed metaphone string (the result) |
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| String | Resulting metaphone string |