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ChrisNZ
Tourmaline | Level 20 ChrisNZ
Tourmaline | Level 20

Re: Prxmatch

Posted 01-23-2018 04:11 PM (719 views)  |   In reply to SASPhile

I'll ask again.

Have you looked at the spelling distance functions? like SPEDIS or COMPGED? 

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ChrisHemedinger
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Re: Prxmatch

Posted 01-23-2018 04:17 PM (715 views)  |   In reply to ChrisNZ

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/

 

 

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SASPhile
Quartz | Level 8 SASPhile
Quartz | Level 8

Re: Prxmatch

Posted 01-24-2018 09:46 AM (698 views)  |   In reply to ChrisNZ

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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