Dear ZUBIN,

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I direct you to my web site (www.sasconsig.com) and under Tips and Techniques, look for my Fuzzy Merge Routines about addressing matching, etc. In addition, also look at my E-scrub Icon button. There maybe some useful tips or alternate commercial vendors you might consider. Finally, if you are really ambitious and want some great sleeping material, take a look at the paper I presented to SUGI 22 in San Deigo about Fuzzy Match which resides on the SAS Institute's web site under SAS Observation.

I believe there are also some good papers presented in the past about Phonetic Matching, I think by Dave Riba, which I am sure will help as well.

HTH and Good Luck.

Regards, Charles Patridge Email: Charles_S_Patridge@prodigy.net

In article <8e8cv1$kui$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net>, "Zubin" <binabina@mindspring.com> wrote: > Hello, i need to write some sas code to match address data to the USPS > address file for cleansing. Can anyone recommend an approach? Is there > string matching algorithms in SAS? > >

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