--- /Metaphone.java	2023-07-05 03:04:20.986041755 +0200
+++ /Codec-1/src/java/org/apache/commons/codec/language/Metaphone.java	2023-07-05 03:04:20.990041756 +0200
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
      * @return A metaphone code corresponding to the String supplied
      */
     public String metaphone(String txt) {
-        boolean hard = false ;
+boolean matches = false;boolean hard = false ;
         if ((txt == null) || (txt.length() == 0)) {
             return "" ;
         }
