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SoundexCompare

Compare soundex values of 2 strings.

Declaration

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function SoundexCompare(

  const AText: String;

  const AOther: String;

  ALength: TSoundexLength

):Integer;

function SoundexCompare(

  const AText: String;

  const AOther: String

):Integer;

Arguments

AText

  

First string.

AOther

  

Second string.

ALength

  

Length of soundexes to compare.

Function result

0 if the soundexes are equal. Negative of the first is smaller as the second, positive otherwise.

Arguments

AText

  

First string.

AOther

  

Second string.

Function result

0 if the soundexes are equal. Negative of the first is smaller as the second, positive otherwise.

Description

SoundexCompare computes the soundex codes of AText and AOther and feeds these to CompareText. It will return -1 if the soundex code of AText is less than the soundex code of AOther, 0 if they are equal, and 1 if the code of AOther is larger than the code of AText.

Errors

None.

See also

Soundex

  

Compute the soundex of a string

SoundexInt

  

Soundex value as an integer.

SoundexProc

  

Default AnsiResemblesText implementation.

SoundexWord

  

Calculate a word-sized soundex value

SoundexSimilar

  

Check whether 2 strings have equal soundex values

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