Sadly I don;t think soundex is going to help you as this finds words that
sound like other words (there, their, they're), which isn't going to pickup
typos.
I think comparing each contact field on an OR basis is a sufficient way to
find dupes, if none of those fields are the same then it is not
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote:
Sadly I don;t think soundex is going to help you as this finds words that
sound like other words (there, their, they're), which isn't going to pickup
typos.
In my testing soundex works reasonable well if I allow the 2
Subject: Re: Find duplicated contacts (and typos)
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote:
Sadly I don;t think soundex is going to help you as this finds words
that sound like other words (there, their, they're), which isn't going
to pickup typos.
In my testing
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote:
Crikey, you must just have a really shagged contacts list LOL.
Have you tried Plaxo, this does a very good job of removing duplicates.
Or does it need to be an in-house app ?
Russ,
This is part of a larger app and the
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