flatulent 0.0.3 → 0.0.4

data/rails/lib/flatulent/text/soundex.rb

@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Ruby implementation of the Soundex algorithm,
-# as described by Knuth in volume 3 of The Art of Computer Programming.
-#
-# Author: Michael Neumann (neumann@s-direktnet.de)
-#
-
-module Text # :nodoc:
-module Soundex
-
-  def soundex(str_or_arr)
-    case str_or_arr
-    when String
-      soundex_str(str_or_arr)
-    when Array
-      str_or_arr.collect{|ele| soundex_str(ele)}
-    else
-      nil
-    end
-  end
-  module_function :soundex
-
-  private
-
-  #
-  # returns nil if the value couldn't be calculated (empty-string, wrong-character)
-  # do not change the parameter "str"
-  #
-  def soundex_str(str)
-    return nil if str.empty?
-
-    str = str.upcase
-    last_code = get_code(str[0,1])
-    soundex_code = str[0,1]
-
-    for index in 1...(str.size) do
-      return soundex_code if soundex_code.size == 4
-
-      code = get_code(str[index,1])
-    
-      if code == "0" then
-        last_code = nil
-      elsif code == nil then
-        return nil
-      elsif code != last_code then
-        soundex_code += code
-        last_code = code        
-      end 
-    end # for
-  
-    return soundex_code + "000"[0,4-soundex_code.size]
-  end
-  module_function :soundex_str
-          
-  def get_code(char)
-    char.tr! "AEIOUYWHBPFVCSKGJQXZDTLMNR", "00000000111122222222334556"
-  end
-  module_function :get_code
-
-end # module Soundex
-end # module Text