From: Han Holl <han.holl@...>
Date: 2007-08-14T19:56:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with string matching algorythm

As others already said, it depends on your needs.
But nobody mentioned soundex yet:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/soundex/
which may or may not, be what you want.

Han Holl