System.StrUtils.Soundex

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Delphi

function Soundex(const AText: string; ALength: TSoundexLength): string;

C++

extern DELPHI_PACKAGE System::UnicodeString __fastcall Soundex(const System::UnicodeString AText, TSoundexLength ALength = (TSoundexLength)(0x4));

Properties

Type Visibility Source Unit Parent
function public
System.StrUtils.pas
System.StrUtils.hpp
System.StrUtils System.StrUtils

Description

Converts a string into its Soundex representation.

Soundex converts the string specified by AText into a phonetic representation where each character of the resulting string represents one of six families of similar phonemes. It returns up to the first ALength Soundex codes in the resulting string representation.

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