RE: Scanning for similar cities -- RPG400-L

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Subject: RE: Scanning for similar cities
From: "Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:32:30 -0600
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First thing that comes to my mind is to run a comparison against a set of
control data (physical file) that contains a list of valid cities and state
and city/state and city/state/county combinations. 



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Subject: Scanning for similar cities

OK this one is a bit wierd.

We get some web orders and the city field is sometimes including the
county, e.g. there is Houston, there is Houston Harrison. The harder cases
might be for a city that is made up of 2 names to being w/ such as San
Antonio.  I built a logical by city but in some cases it gets subdivided.

The only issue is, how does the program know that there is a problem?

The need is for summarizing state taxes, for those of you familiar, Texas
has separate tax codes by city and county.

The user does her tallying by city tho.

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