> also, i'd be happy to listen opinions from people who have experience of usage > of such things like soundex. Soundex is grossly outdated. It was designed for manual use by 19th century census takers, and I'm always surprised to see it still used. Metaphone (google search gets good results) does a much better job of matching names, and double metaphone does even better although having each word mapped to possibly 2 equivalents might complicate your logic depending on your queries. -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice
