Supporting File Structures|FindDuplicateRecords Conversion Aliases Files
Conversion Aliases Files are used to alias conversion functions, such that a set of one or more conversion functions can
be grouped under a single alias name.
This makes longer series of conversion functions, convenient to refer to by a single function name.
A typical FindDuplicateRecords Conversion Aliases File would look like this (abbreviated) :-
# DuplicateRecords - Conversion Function Aliases.
#
# Conversion function aliases are convenient forms of one or more other
# conversion function names.
#
# One alias cannot reference another. A maximum of 256 different aliases are allowed.
#
# The format of this file should be :-
#
# ALIAS_NAME() [CONVERSION_FUNCTIONS, ...]
#
# For example ...
#
# ALIAS_REMOVE_PUNCTUATION() REMOVE_CHARACTERS('.,;:')
#
# ... where
# ALIAS_REMOVE_PUNCTUATION() is the conversion alias for
# REMOVE_CHARACTERS('.,;:')
#
# Conversion alias names must end with '()' and can be up to 32 characters long.
#
# This file can be amended.
#
ALIAS_CONVERT_PERSON_NAMES() EQUIVALENTS_FILE('EquivalentsFiles/PersonNames_English.txt')
ALIAS_REMOVE_PUNCTUATION() REMOVE_CHARACTERS('.,;:')
ALIAS_REMOVE_UNDERSCORES() REMOVE_CHARACTERS('_')
ALIAS_REMOVE_CURRENCY() REMOVE_CHARACTERS('£') REMOVE_CHARACTERS('$')
ALIAS_REMOVE_NUMBER_SIGNS() REMOVE_CHARACTERS('+-')
ALIAS_REMOVE_COMMAS() REMOVE_CHARACTERS(',')