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Re: st: identifying strings that differ on one or two letters
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"Clyde Schechter" <[email protected]> 
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Re: st: identifying strings that differ on one or two letters 
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Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:42:51 -0800 
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As Nick Cox has said, this is difficult to automate.  But from your
description, I think that Michael Blasnik's reclink package would probably
get you very close to what you want, and then you could fix by hand the
remaining problem cases.
-findit reclink-
Hope this helps.
Clyde Schechter, MA MD
Associate Professor of Family & Social Medicine
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