Re: Phonetic speller function
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:41:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Phonetic speller function | ||
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Dotan Cohen wrote:
> kayak. Focusing only on the 'k's I get this array: kayak, cayac. But I
> need
> kayak, kayac, cayak, cayac.
You may (or may not) be able to get something going with that extra
optional last argument to str_replace which tells how many characters to
replace.
str_replace('k', 'c', 'kayak', 1) ==> cayak
You probably should step back and use soundex, or one of the other "sound
like" modules in PHP as Greg suggested though, as a word with THREE k's in
it will maybe be too much hassle...
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