RE: looking for faster Ideas...

[Stuart Boydell]

Title: RE: looking for faster Ideas...

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Maybe something like this fuzzy text string searcher might work for you

http://www.pmsi.fr/fuzstrng.htm

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of George Gallen
Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 09:33
To: 'U2 Users Discussion List'
Subject: RE: looking for faster Ideas...

I thought of that, but soundex only works on the first three letters, if I remember correctly.

or it only encodes the first three letters, then remaining are unchanged.

 

The main problem is I can't isolate a last name from the source, it comes in as a full name,

and if I use the full name as given to us by the consumer, there is a chance it won't be in

the same exact format as in the file from the rental, might be missing the middle initial

one may have a married hyphenated name, one could be a shortened or different first name

(ie. betty instead of elizabeth, or jack instead john......etc).

 

Since my original was a list of if/thens, looks like the I'm not going to be able to gain much

in speed any other way with straight programming (that is no temp files, or files to bounce off).

 

George

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