Re: standardising spellings

2005-02-24 Thread Ron Wingfield
- Original Message - From: Graeme St. Clair To: beginners@perl.org Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 2:24 PM Subject: RE: standardising spellings -Original Message- From: Peter Rabbitson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 2:01 PM

RE: standardising spellings

2005-02-24 Thread Graeme St. Clair
-Original Message- From: Peter Rabbitson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 2:01 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: standardising spellings On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 06:01:50PM -, Dermot Paikkos wrote: > Hi, > > I have a list of about 650 names

Re: standardising spellings

2005-02-24 Thread Peter Rabbitson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 06:01:50PM -, Dermot Paikkos wrote: > Hi, > > I have a list of about 650 names (a small sample is below) that I > need to import into a database. When you look at the list there are > some obvious duplicates that are spelt slightly differently. I can > rationalize so