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|    Rodney Wise to All    |
|    Re: Key Fields    |
|    21 Mar 07 18:14:30    |
      From: NSpamPlease_rodney1@bellsouth.net              Delbert,              Using the Street address as part of your tables KEY, you will stand a good       chance of creating duplicates.              Look at these 2 addresses:              1234 W. Sassafras Rd.       1234 Sasafras Road West              These 2 addresses are the same location but entered differently and also       misspelled. You table would accept these as Different addresses.              To solve this, I created a library that reduces street addresses to a       numeric value. It compensates for mis-spelled words (English) and also for       different Address Formats.              I would include a new Field and place the numeric value of the address in       that field... Use this field in combination with say your First Name field       to create a compound KEY.              The code for this can be found at:              http://www.ars-florida.com/PDOXboard              Look at article # 3, "StreetPX"                     --       ...        `·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·-> rodney              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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