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    Handling variances in user-entered text data

    The database that I'm working with has some fields that are critical for my analysis (e.g. for VLOOKUPs) but come from user-entered free text, so I often need to match something like:
    "Montezuma #10-W25"
    with entries such as:
    "muntezuma 10-W 25"
    "Montezuma1025W"
    "Monte Zuma 25W #10"
    "MZA 10-W25"
    To date, I've been handling case-by-case errors using TRIM, CLEAN, UPPER, LEFT, MID, etc, but the dataset is large and variations in data entry abound; I'm looking for a more robust approach.

    Any suggestions or recommenations on a neural network add-in or other solution that would promote automatic recognition/correction of these kinds of variances?

    Thanks in advance,
    Mike
    Last edited by mwwoodm; 11-01-2011 at 08:47 AM. Reason: spelling error

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