I'll ask again.
Have you looked at the spelling distance functions? like SPEDIS or COMPGED?
To build on @ChrisNZ's suggestion, check out this fuzzy matching tip from @Ron_Cody:
https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/sas-authors-tip-spedis-and-fuzzy-matching/
Yes, they both are giving me the desired output.
I tried where soundex(a.text)=soundex(b.text), this did not yeild the result as well. Many of the words between the two strings match. Yet soundex fails.
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