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Sound like a more flexible approach.  Some wheels turning here.  Thanks for
the history lesson and suggestions.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Waterbury [mailto:mark.s.waterbury@worldnet.att.net]

Soundex was originally developed for the Census Bureau, and was
intended only to encode the "sound" of "names" (family names).
Also, it was developed well before computers, and was originally
intended for humans to translate written names into the Soundex
(index) codes, and then used to "file" paper documents under this
index code.

I would argue that "Your City Car Dealer" should be treated as
four words, and should result in four separate SoundEx "keys".

Then, you could design a database with a long enough "key" so
you could "concatenate" the keys...  you get the idea?


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