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Help!!!.. Fuzzy Matching for Chinese Characters/Names.. is there a Macro out there?
I am trying to link two databases by manually matching the record name (written in Chinese). However, it's taking way too long due to th number of records. One useless character that is missing in one of th names throws off the vlookup! Does anyone know if there is a Macro available to help do fuzz matching in a vlookup in Chinese? The difference between a traditiona vlookup would be to look at the unique combinations between two chines characters within the name and find the closest match with anothe name. (since each unique two character combination greatly increase the chances the two records match) Traditional fuzzy matching yield completely wrong results. Thanks -- frostytil ----------------------------------------------------------------------- frostytile's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=3388 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=53662 |
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Help!!!.. Fuzzy Matching for Chinese Characters/Names.. is there a Macro out there?
frostytile,
I'm no Chinese expert, but there are various ways of sorting in Chinese; by stroke count or PinYin, so it depends what you mean by "closest match. The .SortSpecial method may help with this. So you have something like "apple" and "aple" that you are trying to match ? NickHK "frostytile" wrote in message ... I am trying to link two databases by manually matching the record names (written in Chinese). However, it's taking way too long due to the number of records. One useless character that is missing in one of the names throws off the vlookup! Does anyone know if there is a Macro available to help do fuzzy matching in a vlookup in Chinese? The difference between a traditional vlookup would be to look at the unique combinations between two chinese characters within the name and find the closest match with another name. (since each unique two character combination greatly increases the chances the two records match) Traditional fuzzy matching yields completely wrong results. Thanks! -- frostytile ------------------------------------------------------------------------ frostytile's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=33884 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=536623 |
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