RosettaCodeData/Task/Soundex/Ruby/soundex.rb

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Ruby

class String
SoundexChars = 'BFPVCGJKQSXZDTLMNR'
SoundexNums = '111122222222334556'
SoundexCharsEx = '^' + SoundexChars
SoundexCharsDel = '^A-Z'
# desc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex
def soundex(census = true)
str = self.upcase.delete(SoundexCharsDel)
str[0,1] + str[1..-1].delete(SoundexCharsEx).
tr_s(SoundexChars, SoundexNums)\
[0 .. (census ? 2 : -1)].
ljust(3, '0') rescue ''
end
def sounds_like(other)
self.soundex == other.soundex
end
end
%w(Soundex Sownteks Example Ekzampul foo bar).each_slice(2) do |word1, word2|
[word1, word2].each {|word| puts '%-8s -> %s' % [word, word.soundex]}
print "'#{word1}' "
print word1.sounds_like(word2) ? "sounds" : "does not sound"
print " like '#{word2}'\n"
end