"Mark McCall" <ma*********@nbs.nhs.uk> wrote in message
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I have found a number of e-mails in the archives referring to the
above, but have yet to find it. If anyone has gone through the
routine of coding the above, would they be happy to share it with me?
I just ran accross this when I was purging some old junk from
one of my purloined source code folders. I don't think I ever
actually tried this out, but here it is any way.
'Metaphone algorithm translated from C to Delphi by Tom White
<wc*@intellex.com>
'Translated to Visual Basic by Dave White 9/10/01
'
'v1.1 fixes a few bugs
'
' Checks length of string before removing trailing S (>1)
' PH used to translate to H, now translates to F
'Original C version by Michael Kuhn <rh*********@uunet.uu.net>
'
'
Function InStrC (ByVal SearchIn As String, ByVal SoughtCharacters As String)
As Integer
'--- Returns the position of the first character in SearchIn that is
contained
'--- in the string SoughtCharacters. Returns 0 if none found.
Dim i As Integer
On Error Resume Next
SoughtCharacters = UCase(SoughtCharacters)
SearchIn = UCase(SearchIn)
For i = 1 To Len(SearchIn)
If InStr(SoughtCharacters, Mid(SearchIn, i, 1)) > 0 Then
InStrC = i: Exit Function
End If
Next i
InStrC = 0
End Function
Function Metaphone (ByVal A As Variant) As String
Dim b, c, d, e As String
Dim inp, outp As String
Dim vowels, frontv, varson, dbl As String
Dim excppair, nxtltr As String
Dim T, ii, jj, lng, lastchr As Integer
Dim curltr, prevltr, nextltr, nextltr2, nextltr3 As String
Dim vowelafter, vowelbefore, frontvafter, silent, hard As Integer
Dim alphachr As String
On Error Resume Next
If IsNull(A) Then A = ""
A = CStr(A)
inp = UCase(A)
vowels = "AEIOU"
frontv = "EIY"
varson = "CSPTG"
dbl = "." 'Lets us allow certain letters to be doubled
excppair = "AGKPW"
nxtltr = "ENNNR"
alphachr = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
'--Remove non-alpha characters
outp = ""
For T = 1 To Len(inp)
If InStr(alphachr, Mid(inp, T, 1)) > 0 Then outp = outp + Mid(inp, T, 1)
Next T
inp = outp: outp = ""
If Len(inp) = 0 Then Metaphone = "": Exit Function
'--Check rules at beginning of word
If Len(inp) > 1 Then
b = Mid(inp, 1, 1)
c = Mid(inp, 2, 1)
ii = InStr(excppair, b)
jj = InStr(nxtltr, c)
If ii = jj And ii > 0 Then
inp = Mid(inp, 2, Len(inp) - 1)
End If
End If
If Mid(inp, 1, 1) = "X" Then Mid(inp, 1, 1) = "S"
If Mid(inp, 1, 2) = "WH" Then inp = "W" + Mid(inp, 3)
If Right(inp, 1) = "S" Then inp = Left(inp, Len(inp) - 1)
ii = 0
Do
ii = ii + 1
'--Main Loop!
silent = False
hard = False
curltr = Mid(inp, ii, 1)
vowelbefore = False
prevltr = " "
If ii > 1 Then
prevltr = Mid(inp, ii - 1, 1)
If InStrC(prevltr, vowels) > 0 Then vowelbefore = True
End If
If ((ii = 1) And (InStrC(curltr, vowels) > 0)) Then
outp = outp + curltr
GoTo ContinueMainLoop
End If
vowelafter = False
frontvafter = False
nextltr = " "
If ii < Len(inp) Then
nextltr = Mid(inp, ii + 1, 1)
If InStrC(nextltr, vowels) > 0 Then vowelafter = True
If InStrC(nextltr, frontv) > 0 Then frontvafter = True
End If
'--Skip double letters EXCEPT ones in variable double
If InStrC(curltr, dbl) = 0 Then
If curltr = nextltr Then GoTo ContinueMainLoop
End If
nextltr2 = " "
If Len(inp) - ii > 1 Then
nextltr2 = Mid(inp, ii + 2, 1)
End If
nextltr3 = " "
If (Len(inp) - ii) > 2 Then
nextltr3 = Mid(inp, ii + 3, 1)
End If
Select Case curltr
Case "B":
silent = False
If (ii = Len(inp)) And (prevltr = "M") Then silent = True
If Not (silent) Then outp = outp + curltr
Case "C":
If Not ((ii > 2) And (prevltr = "S") And frontvafter) Then
If ((ii > 1) And (nextltr = "I") And (nextltr2 = "A")) Then
outp = outp + "X"
Else
If frontvafter Then
outp = outp + "S"
Else
If ((ii > 2) And (prevltr = "S") And (nextltr = "H"))
Then
outp = outp + "K"
Else
If nextltr = "H" Then
If ((ii = 1) And (InStrC(nextltr2, vowels) = 0))
Then
outp = outp + "K"
Else
outp = outp + "X"
End If
Else
If prevltr = "C" Then
outp = outp + "C"
Else
outp = outp + "K"
End If
End If
End If
End If
End If
End If
Case "D":
If ((nextltr = "G") And (InStrC(nextltr2, frontv) > 0)) Then
outp = outp + "J"
Else
outp = outp + "T"
End If
Case "G":
silent = False
If ((ii < Len(inp)) And (nextltr = "H") And (InStrC(nextltr2,
vowels) = 0)) Then
silent = True
End If
If ((ii = Len(inp) - 4) And (nextltr = "N") And (nextltr2 =
"E") And (nextltr3 = "D")) Then
silent = True
ElseIf ((ii = Len(inp) - 2) And (nextltr = "N")) Then
silent = True
End If
If (prevltr = "D") And frontvafter Then silent = True
If prevltr = "G" Then
hard = True
End If
If Not (silent) Then
If frontvafter And (Not (hard)) Then
outp = outp + "J"
Else
outp = outp + "K"
End If
End If
Case "H":
silent = False
If InStrC(prevltr, varson) > 0 Then silent = True
If vowelbefore And (Not (vowelafter)) Then silent = True
If Not silent Then outp = outp + curltr
Case "F", "J", "L", "M", "N", "R": outp = outp + curltr
Case "K": If prevltr <> "C" Then outp = outp + curltr
Case "P": If nextltr = "H" Then outp = outp + "F" Else outp = outp + "P"
Case "Q": outp = outp + "K"
Case "S":
If ((ii > 2) And (nextltr = "I") And ((nextltr2 = "O") Or
(nextltr2 = "A"))) Then
outp = outp + "X"
End If
If (nextltr = "H") Then
outp = outp + "X"
Else
outp = outp + "S"
End If
Case "T":
If ((ii > 0) And (nextltr = "I") And ((nextltr2 = "O") Or
(nextltr2 = "A"))) Then
outp = outp + "X"
End If
If nextltr = "H" Then
If ((ii > 1) Or (InStrC(nextltr2, vowels) > 0)) Then
outp = outp + "0"
Else
outp = outp + "T"
End If
ElseIf Not ((ii < Len(inp) - 3) And (nextltr = "C") And
(nextltr2 = "H")) Then
outp = outp + "T"
End If
Case "V": outp = outp + "F"
Case "W", "Y": If (ii < Len(inp) - 1) And vowelafter Then outp = outp +
curltr
Case "X": outp = outp + "KS"
Case "Z": outp = outp + "S"
End Select
ContinueMainLoop:
Loop Until (ii > Len(inp))
Metaphone = outp
End Function
