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Class: MetaPhone in Category General VBA/VB6 : Searching and Sorting from Total Visual SourceBook

Class that implements the metaphone string searching algorithm in VBA and VB6.

The metaphone algorithm is similar to the Soundex algorithm but tends to group names together that are more closely related than Soundex does. However, metaphone also tends to produce more matches than Soundex. Similar to Soundex, the metaphone algorithm generates a key value for a word based on the consonants in that word. Metaphone uses more intelligent transformation rules, though, by examining groups of letters, or diphthongs.

Procedure List

Procedure Name	Type	Description
(Declarations)	Declarations	Declarations and private variables for the CMetaPhone class.
Class_Initialize	Initialize	Set initial values to defaults which may be overridden with property settings.
Metaphone	Method	Calculates the metaphone value of a word.
AffectH	Private	Determine if the character affects "H". The following characters affect "H": C,G,P,S,T.
IntToByte	Private	Perform an unsigned conversion from an integer value to a byte value. This procedure correctly handles any integer value. For example, lngNumber = -1 assigns -1 to the variable lngNumber. However, lngNumber = IntToLong(-1) assigns 65,535 to lngNumber.
IsLetter	Private	Determine if a character is a letter.
IsVowel	Private	Determine if the character is a vowel.
MakeSoft	Private	Determine if the character should be made soft. The following letters are made soft: E, I, Y.
NoChange	Private	Determine if the character should be changed. The following characters are not transformed by the MetaPhone algorithm: F, J, L, M, N, R.
NoGHToF	Private	Determine if "GH" should be changed to "F". G is transformed to F if it is proceeded by H, and the word does not start with B, D, or H.

Example Code for Using Class: MetaPhone

' Example of CMetaphone
'
' To try this example, do the following:
' 1. Create a new form
' 2. Create a command button named 'cmdTest'
' 3. Paste all the code from this example to the new form's module.
' 4. Run the form

Private Sub cmdTest_Click()
  Dim Metaphone As CMetaPhone
  Dim strKeyOne As String
  Dim strKeyTwo As String

  Set Metaphone = New CMetaPhone

  ' Calculate and compare keys
  strKeyOne = Metaphone.Metaphone("Microsoft")
  strKeyTwo = Metaphone.Metaphone("Mikrosopht")

  If strKeyOne = strKeyTwo Then
    Debug.Print "They match!"
  Else
    Debug.Print "They do not match"
  End If

End Sub

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