Soundex Example 3

Posted by attriel October 14th, 2008

As a third example we can encode the word BLACKGUARD.  Largely because it demonstrates rule 5, as well as lets us see rule 3 a little better.

Step 1, B-LACKGUARD

Then we encode the letters

L:4

C:2

K:2

G:2

R:6

D:3

Step 2: B-4a222ua63

Step 3, collapsing adjacent identical digits, returns : B-4a2ua63

Step 4 removes all non-encoded letters, B-4263

Step 5 truncates to 3-digits, leaving us B-426

The SNDX value for BLACKGUARD is B-426 (BLKR)

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