Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:10:49 -0500
Reply-To: Charles Patridge <Charles_S_Patridge@PRODIGY.NET>
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From: Charles Patridge <Charles_S_Patridge@PRODIGY.NET>
Subject: Re: address field - cleaning and separating
Dear Courtney,
If you do find such code, please let me know <grin> as I would be very
interested to see it.
I know there are commercial products including SI's product Data Quality/
Data Clean using Proc Match and Proc Schema which some of them do try to
break address into their basic elements.
It may be possible to develop such routines provided the data follows some
logical pattern but in my humble opinion, my experience has shown that
address comes in many flavors and colors (mostly dirty).
And I believe my routines that you spoke will not nor tries to break down
an address into its basic elements which is why I developed some of those
routines the way I did (ie addresses from various sources do not follow any
regular patterns). However, some of those routines will go a long ways in
making the data a bit more consistent, possibly enabling development of
more routines to help you out.
I guess I would be interested in knowing why you need to turn addresses
into their basic elements. I assume so you can match addresses with other
files which may also need to be standardized.
Sorry I could not make my routines easier to follow but when dealing with
nasty data sometimes requires nasty code <grin>.
Let me know what you find out. Thanks.
Charles Patridge
Email: Charles_S_Patridge@prodigy.net
