RE: [PHP] soundex question
| From: | Matt Schroebel | Date: | Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:40:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] soundex question | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: daniel [mailto:daniel@electroteque.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 8:53 PM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] soundex question
>
> 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 :|
My suggestion would be to clean up the data.