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 2000, Maurice Aubrey <[email protected]>.
 All rights reserved.

 This code is based heavily on the C++ implementation by
 Lawrence Philips and incorporates several bug fixes courtesy
 of Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]>.

 This module is free software; you may redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

PREREQUISITES

 This module requires a C compiler.

INSTALLATION

 To install this module, move into the directory where this file is
 located and type the following:

       perl Makefile.PL
       make
       make test
       make install

 This will install the module into the Perl library directory.  If
 you lack sufficient privileges for this, then you can specify an
 alternate directory like this:

       perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/where/I/want/it/put
       make
       make test
       make install

 Once installed, you can use the following line to load the module into
 your scripts:

       use Text::DoubleMetaphone qw( double_metaphone );

 If you installed the module into an alternative directory, you will
 need to let Perl know where it can be found:

       use lib "/path/to/my/modules";
       use Text::DoubleMetaphone qw( double_metaphone );

 See the POD documentation for further details.