PHP soundex Function

What is soundex Function?

Explanation

In PHP, this function is used to calculate the soundex key of a string.

Syntax:


soundex(string)

The above syntax specifies the string to be checked.

Example :


<?php
$str1 = "Gauss";
$str2 = "Ghosh";
echo soundex($str1);
echo "<br />";
echo soundex($str2);
?>
Result :

G200
G200

In the above example we have two strings that sounds similar "Gauss", "Ghosh" which returns the same result.

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