public String soundex()

in src/main/java/org/apache/commons/codec/language/RefinedSoundex.java [190:220]

• 24 lines of code
• 6 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public String soundex(String str) {
        if (str == null) {
            return null;
        }
        str = SoundexUtils.clean(str);
        if (str.isEmpty()) {
            return str;
        }

        final StringBuilder sBuf = new StringBuilder();
        sBuf.append(str.charAt(0));

        char last, current;
        last = '*';

        for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {

            current = getMappingCode(str.charAt(i));
            if (current == last) {
                continue;
            }
            if (current != 0) {
                sBuf.append(current);
            }

            last = current;

        }

        return sBuf.toString();
    }