Class Metaphone

Encodes a string into a Metaphone value.

Initial Java implementation by William B. Brogden. December, 1997. Permission given by wbrogden for code to be used anywhere.

Hanging on the Metaphone by Lawrence Philips in Computer Language of Dec. 1990, p 39.

Note, that this does not match the algorithm that ships with PHP, or the algorithm found in the Perl implementations:

They have had undocumented changes from the originally published algorithm. For more information, see CODEC-57.

This class is conditionally thread-safe. The instance field Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic.Language.Metaphone.maxCodeLen is mutable MaxCodeLen but is not volatile, and accesses are not synchronized. If an instance of the class is shared between threads, the caller needs to ensure that suitable synchronization is used to ensure safe publication of the value between threads, and must not set MaxCodeLen after initial setup.

Inheritance
System.Object
Metaphone
Implements
Inherited Members
System.Object.Equals(System.Object)
System.Object.Equals(System.Object, System.Object)
System.Object.GetHashCode()
System.Object.GetType()
System.Object.MemberwiseClone()
System.Object.ReferenceEquals(System.Object, System.Object)
System.Object.ToString()
Namespace: Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic.Language
Assembly: Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic.dll
Syntax
public class Metaphone : IStringEncoder

Constructors

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Metaphone()

Creates an instance of the Metaphone encoder

Declaration
public Metaphone()

Properties

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MaxCodeLen

Gets or Sets Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic.Language.Metaphone.maxCodeLen.

Declaration
public virtual int MaxCodeLen { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.Int32

Methods

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Encode(String)

Encodes a string using the Metaphone algorithm.

Declaration
public virtual string Encode(string str)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String str

String to encode.
Returns
Type Description
System.String

The metaphone code corresponding to the string supplied.
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GetMetaphone(String)

Find the metaphone value of a string. This is similar to the soundex algorithm, but better at finding similar sounding words. All input is converted to upper case. Limitations: Input format is expected to be a single ASCII word with only characters in the A - Z range, no punctuation or numbers.

Declaration
public virtual string GetMetaphone(string txt)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String txt

String to find the metaphone code for.
Returns
Type Description
System.String

A metaphone code corresponding to the string supplied.
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IsMetaphoneEqual(String, String)

Tests is the metaphones of two strings are identical.

Declaration
public virtual bool IsMetaphoneEqual(string str1, string str2)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String str1

First of two strings to compare.
System.String str2

Second of two strings to compare.
Returns
Type Description
System.Boolean

true if the metaphones of these strings are identical, false otherwise.

Implements