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 2007, Stephen Lacy This code is a derivative work from an implementation by Maurice Aubrey , and modified to use STL vector and string classes instead of bare pointers. Original Comments by 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.