* Carl Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [08 Dec 2001 01:54]:
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> I was hoping that I could find a way to say 'Compare two strings (the
> fields within the strings aren't important). If string B has 17 common
> characters out of 20 in string A, you might want to consider that a
> match'.
See the St
perhaps:
use Digest::MD5
or check out the Guttman Rosler transform:
http://raleigh.pm.org/sorting.html
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Hey John;
Thanks for the help
At 08:44 AM 12/7/2001 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Carl,
>
> I don't have a lot of Perl-specific advice, but if it's possible to
>dependably parse each line into the component fields (last name, first name,
>street address, etc.), you could apply some intel
Carl,
I don't have a lot of Perl-specific advice, but if it's possible to
dependably parse each line into the component fields (last name, first name,
street address, etc.), you could apply some intelligent guesses using the
various fields. If this is possible, here's what worked pretty well fo
