soundex question

From: Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 00:53:07 +0000
Subject: soundex question
Groups: php.general 
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hi there how is it possible to get similar matches of extries in mysql , i have a standard set of list of countries in the db , i am trying to convert a set of records and need to match against the countries table to get the primaryID , basically i have an record like "Hong Kong" there is an entry like "H.kong" i basically need to match those , i've tried everything even soundex doesnt work :|

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