>Hi.
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>Does anyone know of a class that'll do pattern matching. Here's the reason why.
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>Let say I want to link 2 files.....but there are inconsistencies in the primary field. What I'll like to do is have a class that'll take part or the whole record and try pattern matching return a probability that the two records are related.
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>Thanks

For text, the SOUNDEX() and DIFFERENCE() functions might be helpful.