Text-DoubleMetaphone_PP version 0.03 ==================================== The README is used to introduce the module and provide instructions on how to install the module, any machine dependencies it may have (for example C compilers and installed libraries) and any other information that should be provided before the module is installed. A README file is required for CPAN modules since CPAN extracts the README file from a module distribution so that people browsing the archive can use it get an idea of the modules uses. It is usually a good idea to provide version information here so that people can decide whether fixes for the module are worth downloading. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES SYNOPSIS use Text::DoubleMetaphone_PP qw ( double_metaphone_pp ); my($code1, $code2) = double_metaphone_pp("Word"); DESCRIPTION This module is a pure perl implimentation of a "sounds like" algorithm based off of Lawrence Phillips' Double Metaphone method which, was published in the June, 2000 issue of C/C++ Users Journal. The Double Metaphone algorithm produce two encodings for each word passed to it creating a more accurate representation of words that may be pronounced in multiple ways. For additional information about the Double Metaphone algorithm refer to: http:/en.wikipedia.ort/wiki/Metaphone FUNCTIONS double_metaphone_pp( string ) Takes a word and returns two phonetic codes in the form of two seperate strings. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2012 by Theodore Klepin. All rights resered. This code is based on the C++ implementation by Lawrence Philips. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.14.2 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.