NAME

String::Nysiis - NYSIIS Phonetic Encoding

SYNOPSIS

use String::Nysiis qw(nysiis);
my $enc = nysiis($string);

print nysiis('Larry'),"\n"; # should print LARY

DESCRIPTION

New York State Identification and Intelligence System (NYSIIS) algorithm for phonetic encoding of names.

EXPORT

None by default.

AUTHOR

This module is based on a NYSIIS implementation by Ben Kennedy <bkennedy@hmsonline.com>. It is currently being maintained by:

Kyle R. Burton 
krburton@cpan.org
kburton@hmsonline.com
HMS
625 Ridge Pike
Building E
Suite 400
Conshohocken, PA 19428

SEE ALSO

Atack, J., and F. Bateman. 1992.  
 "Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match" : a general personal 
   computer-based matching program for historical research. 
   Historical Methods 25: 53-65.

perl(1). Text::DoubleMetaphone. Text::Soundex.