Hi Cetin,

>Are these duplicates?
>
>Blumen strasse
>Blumen strase
>Blumen straße
>Blumen Strasse
>Blumen St.

no, they are not. At least as far as the contest goes. Only completely identical records are considered duplicate.


> why email was c(38) and not c(40), c(50) etc

The field widths were my choosing. As in this case narrower fields speed up things considerably each field is just as wide as it has to be.

Markus