Hello,
The typo mistake is driving me crazy. As the sample dataset is shown below, it's very easy to find out one name by misspelling one or two letters. Is there a way to put them into one name? For example, there are five spelling in 'LARYNGOMALACIA' and four spelling in 'DERMATITIS'. Could SAS figure out all of them means one thing?
data datain1;
infile datalines delimiter=',';
input Name : $300. ;
datalines;
ALLERGIC RHINIT,
ALLERGIC RHINITIS,
ACUTE OTITIS ME,
ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA,
AIRWAY CLEARANCE IMPAIRMENT,
AIRWAY CLEARENCE IMPAIRMENT,
ATOPIC DERMATITIS,
ATOPIC DERMATITS,
ATOPIC DERMATITUS,
ATOPIC DERMITITS,
ECZEMA,
ECZEMAN,
EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS,
EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS,
EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAITIS,
IMPERFORATE ANUS,
IMPERFORATED ANUS,
LARYNGOMACLACIA,
LARYNGOMALACIA,
LARYNGOMALARIA,
LARYNOMALACIA,
LAYNGOMALACIA,
SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS,
SUBLGOTTIC STENOSIS
;
run;
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