Lingua::EN::NameLookup - a simple dictionary search and manipulation class. Synopsis use Lingua::EN::NameLookup; $dict = new Lingua::EN::NameLookup; $dict->load("mydict.dat"); $res = $dict->lookup("FOO"); $res = $dict->ilookup("Foo"); $dict->add("Bar"); $dict->dump("mynewdict.dat"); Description This class provides the ability to search and manipulate a simple dictionary. It was originally designed for checking surnames encountered during the preparation of census indices. It works best with small data sets and where the names in the data set generate many distinct soundex values. The dictionary is maintained in memory and hence the memory usage depends on the number of names. See the the documentation for full details. This module requires Text::Soundex to be installed on your system. Copyright (c) 2002 Pete Barlow . All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.