>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

I see, so it's not a "database" contest really, read, format,write contest.
Cetin