I'm dealing with a data cleaning problem. We only have Base SAS but I need to find a systematic way of cleaning a list of names and addresses eliminating duplicates. The data has been entered over years with no control of how information was entered. For example, company names might be slightly changed and addresses entered any way someone wishes. At present the data is manually cleaned but each time new data comes in it has to be cleaned again. I've used so called merge purge programs in the past to clean mailing lists.
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