RE: Sorting large file -- MIDRANGE-L

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Title: RE: Sorting large file

SOUNDEX is also now available in SQL at V4R5M0.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 10:43 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Sorting large file

Richard Jackson wrote:

-snip-
>Output two files, the one above in plain
>text but shifted and a second one
>where the words are rewritten into
>letter-number format to match even with
>spelling errors.

I think you're talking about Soundex. One of the trade pubs did an article
on it some time ago. It really works!

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
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Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle

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