<div dir="ltr"><div>You guys aren't very observant......</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Laura Brody<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 9:29 PM, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" target="_blank">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 6:24 PM, Bruce Easton via Filepro-list<br>
<<a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">filepro-list@lists.celestial.<wbr>com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Someone replied off list to explain to me that the "like" operator in SQL<br>
> matches patterns, so for certain purposes that might be desired. And that<br>
> one would expect output from filepro's fuzzy search to be more like SQL'<br>
> Soundex function since they are evidently both based on Soundex.<br>
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</span>I don't know where you got the idea that filePro's fuzzy search was<br>
Soundex-based, but it's not. It's a patented "proximity search"<br>
algorithm licensed by fPTech from a third party. Soundex is a whole<br>
other animal, and is a simple "matches / doesn't match" value.<br>
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Wishing everyone a Happy Independence Day. (Even those outside the<br>
U.S. Pop open a beverage and put some meat on the Barbie.)<br>
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