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(',')