jbn's general purpose S-Lang code

The following Free Software macros are for general use. They can be loaded into any S-Lang application using the version of S-Lang noted with each macro set (typically the latest released version of S-Lang) or a more recent version.

All of this Free Software is licensed to you under the GNU General Public License (or GNU GPL) version 2 or later. For additional Free Software, visit my slrn macros webpage.

Soundex 1.1

Create and reverse soundex hashes.

Last tested with S-Lang 1.4.2

soundex-1.1.tar.gz

Create and reverse Soundex hashes. A Soundex hash reduces a word to its pronounciation by an English speaker—a US English speaker. This macro set provides functions to compute this hash and a regular expression describing all words with the same hash (reversing the hash). This should be useful if you are making a phonetic comparison of strings or listing of keywords by their pronounced sounds. This is the API:

% Find the Soundex hash for a string or array of strings.
String_Type[] Soundex->soundex (String_Type[]);
String_Type   Soundex->soundex (String_Type);

% Find the Soundex hash as described by NARA for a string or array of strings.
String_Type[] Soundex->nara (String_Type[]);
String_Type   Soundex->nara (String_Type);

% Set the object to be returned when there is no hash for the input.
Soundex->set_undefined (Any_Type v);       % v is any S-Lang object.
Any_Type Soundex->get_undefined ();        % Type depends on what v is.

% Compute a description of all strings that match the given Soundex hash.
String_Type[] Soundex->reverse (String_Type[]);
String_Type   Soundex->reverse (String_Type hash);

% Self-test and demonstrate.
Soundex->demo ();
J.B. Nicholson (jbn@forestfield.org)