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Benefits of Using Both Phonetic and Pattern Matching

Having both phonetic and pattern matching is powerful because if the phonetic matching is too lenient, then the pattern matching capability can be used to provide much more control.

For example, the filter (sn ~= ma*l) finds only surnames that begin with “Ma” and end in “l”, including Maxwell, Marshal, and Mantel.