Question How to check similarity between strings?

dmuller

New Member
Hello!
Is there a way in Progress 4GL to compare names in a database (perhaps phonetically)?
For example, I would like the program to return to me how much of the string "Diego Muller" is similar to "Diego Mueller".
I've tried using the "Compare" function without success.

Diego Müller
 

dmuller

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Rob Fitzpatrick

ProgressTalk.com Sponsor
String matching and manipulation is not really an ABL strength. Years back when my application had a need for heuristic matching, we made web service calls from App Server to an Apache Solr instance.
 
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