Realistically, how many addresses does that happen? 500-1000, in each city? Keep in mind that we are looking for duplicates, so all those exceptions would have to happen plus the match of the same last name (at least that would be a strong match point in my calculation), with the worst thing that could happen is that you don't send your pretty newsletter or mail order catalog to one of the two individuals.

In this instance program for the obvious and let the exceptions fall wherever. It is not worth the programming time or effort for the 100,000 exception addresses in the millions of US addresses.

g_White

In reply to Re: •Re: Re: Merge/Purge address data by gwhite
in thread Merge/Purge address data by cleverett

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