Re: Sounds like searching

Posted in 1999

Obnoxio The Clown — Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:15:34 BST — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

From: "Chris McKay" <chris_mckay@nospam-hotmail.com> > >Does anyone know of something that Informix provides (Datablade, some sort >of filter) that provides Fuzzy or Soundex searching on a VARCHAR column, >i.e. SELECT lastname where lastname LIKE "Mac%" would return "McKay" and >"MacKay" I've looked a bit a Excalibur and Verity but these seem like >overkill for the simple function that I want. I seem to recall seeing some SOUNDEX stuff at http://www.iiug.org HTH. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com