Functions/Select-SoundexString.ps1
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function Select-SoundexString { <# .SYNOPSIS Perform soundex string matching. .DESCRIPTION This function lets you perform string matching using the soundex algorithm. Note that this is only useful for shorter strings. .EXAMPLE Select-SoundexString -Search $searchQuery -In $searchData .EXAMPLE $searchData | Select-SoundexString $searchQuery .INPUTS System.String System.String[] .OUTPUTS System.String .NOTES Author: Øyvind Kallstad Date: 08.07.2016 Version: 1.0 .LINK https://communary.wordpress.com/ https://github.com/gravejester/Communary.PASM #> [CmdletBinding()] param ( # The search query. [Parameter(Position = 0)] [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [string] $Search, # The data you want to search through. [Parameter(Position = 1, ValueFromPipeline = $true)] [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [Alias('In')] [string] $Data ) PROCESS { foreach ($string in $Data) { if (Compare-Soundex $string $Search) { Write-Output $string } } } } |