Supporting File Structures|Rule File - Match Functions

Rule files can be associated with match functions.

After data analysis is complete, rule files will have been derived for each column of data in the source file.

These rule files are then associated with their match function - as defined in this file.

A default set of associations is given below.

RuleFileDefines_Booleans.txt                      ALIAS_TRUE_FALSE_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_CityNames.txt                     ALIAS_CITY_NAME_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_CompanyOrBusinessNames.txt        ALIAS_COMPANY_NAME_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_CountryNames.txt                  ALIAS_COUNTRY_NAME_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_CountyNames.txt                   ALIAS_COUNTY_NAME_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_CountyTownNames.txt               ALIAS_COUNTY_NAME_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_PersonForenames.txt               ALIAS_FORENAME_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_PersonForenamesFemale.txt         ALIAS_FORENAME_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_PersonForenamesMale.txt           ALIAS_FORENAME_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_PersonGenders.txt                 ALIAS_GENDER_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_PersonSurnames.txt                ALIAS_SURNAME_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_PostCodes.txt                     ALIAS_POST_CODE_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_RealNumbers.txt                   NUMERICALLY_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_RealNumbersNegative.txt           NUMERICALLY_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_RealNumbersPositive.txt           NUMERICALLY_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_SignedRealNumbers.txt             NUMERICALLY_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_SignedWholeNumbers.txt            NUMERICALLY_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_StrictYesOrNoValues.txt           ALIAS_YES_NO_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_WholeNumbers.txt                  NUMERICALLY_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_WholeNumbersNegative.txt          NUMERICALLY_MATCH()
RuleFileDefines_WholeNumbersPositive.txt          NUMERICALLY_MATCH()