DESCRIPTION This module implements a "sounds like" algorithm developed by Lawrence Philips which he published in the June, 2000 issue of C/C++ Users Journal. Double Metaphone is an improved version of Philips' original Metaphone algorithm. COPYRIGHT Copyright 2000, Maurice Aubrey . All rights reserved. This code is based heavily on the C++ implementation by Lawrence Philips and incorporates several bug fixes courtesy of Kevin Atkinson . This module is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. PREREQUISITES This module requires a C compiler. INSTALLATION To install this module, move into the directory where this file is located and type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install This will install the module into the Perl library directory. If you lack sufficient privileges for this, then you can specify an alternate directory like this: perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/where/I/want/it/put make make test make install Once installed, you can use the following line to load the module into your scripts: use Text::DoubleMetaphone qw( double_metaphone ); If you installed the module into an alternative directory, you will need to let Perl know where it can be found: use lib "/path/to/my/modules"; use Text::DoubleMetaphone qw( double_metaphone ); See the POD documentation for further details.