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Function METAPHONE

Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, an algorithm published in 1990 for indexing words by their English pronunciation. The algorithm produces variable length keys as its output, as opposed to Soundex's fixed-length keys. Similar sounding words share the same keys.

Example

metaphone(string str):string

Arguments

The arguments for this function are set. You can not use other arguments except the following ones.
Name Type Required Description
str string  Yes