Class MatchRatingApproachEncoder

Match Rating Approach Phonetic Algorithm Developed by Western Airlines in 1977.

This class is immutable and thread-safe.

See: Wikipedia - Match Rating Approach

since 1.8

Inheritance

System.Object

MatchRatingApproachEncoder

Implements

IStringEncoder

Namespace: Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic.Language

Assembly: Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic.dll

Syntax

public class MatchRatingApproachEncoder : object, IStringEncoder

Methods

Encode(String)

Encodes a string using the Match Rating Approach (MRA) algorithm.

Declaration

public string Encode(string name)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	name	String to encode.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The MRA code corresponding to the string supplied.

IsEncodeEquals(String, String)

Determines if two names are homophonous via Match Rating Approach (MRA) algorithm. It should be noted that the strings are cleaned in the same way as Encode(String).

Declaration

public virtual bool IsEncodeEquals(string name1, string name2)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	name1	First of the 2 strings (names) to compare.
System.String	name2	Second of the 2 names to compare.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean	true if the encodings are identical false otherwise.

Implements

IStringEncoder