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Codage, syntaxe et commandes
Versions des environnements
OS:
Windows Server 2012 R2
Network:
Windows Server 2012 R2
Virtual environment:
VMWare
Thanks Tore.
Yes, I am aware but this customer has fairly small tables so for now, will keep using.
Albert
>>Hi Thomas,
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>>>Compare all names and give suspected last names higher points if matching.
>>>Especially helpful if one encounters names only added to in marriage with former name,
>>>Helen Müller is later known as Helen Mueller-Luedenscheid if second name comes after marriage from a source using English keyboards and you do not want to normalize "ü" before comparison (still recommended)
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>>1) Would you do this via parsing out the lastname into words and then doing a substring search via the $ operator on each word? In that case, it is not optimizable.
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>>>For time-consuming but extremly helpful glossing over small errors in spelling, do the comparison via Levenshtein.
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>>2) Levenshtein - is this available natively in VFP or is it 3rd party (or a Win dll)?
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>>I am also using a "soundex" like function call to the old PhdBase library. But even it does not find a match when searching for "J. David" (firstname) on field "David".
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>>Albert
>
>Be aware that PhDbase is NOT compatible with VFP9. It may work with small tables, but it will break down when you reach a certain file size. There's no workaround, and that's why it's no longer supported.
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