Name DSLIP Description Info ------------------ ----- ------------------------------------------- -------- String ::Nysiis Rdpfp Nysiis Phonetic Encoding KRBURTON Nysiis (NNew York State Identification and Intelligence System) phonetic encoding algorithm. Similar in nature to the Soundex, Metahpone, and DoubleMetaphone algorithms. 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 . 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.