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The Character Rule Type

Normal Edit-List processing occurs on a name after it has been passed through a character cleaning phase; however, sometimes it is necessary to apply Edit rules before this cleaning has taken place - this is the use of the character rules.

For example, with no character rule, the name,

C/O

enters normal Edit-List lookup processing as:

C O

For the purpose of this example, C/O is assumed to be a common abbreviation for CARE OF. However, in a name C O could easily be a person’s initials or company acronym. To avoid the confusion, a character rule can be defined for C/O, as such:

Substitute: C/O

with Word: CARE OF

Because the character rule is invoked prior to the character cleaning phase, which also performs case stabilization, such rules must be defined as case sensitive. Thus, if

C/O

is expected to be encountered also as lower case

c/o

, or mixed case

C/o

, then extra rules need to be defined to cater for these.

Flags

The following flags may be optionally defined for a character rule.

Delimited After:
A delimiter (space, special character, start or end of name) must be found immediately following the string for the rule to be triggered.

Delimited Before:
A delimiter (space, special character, start or end of name) must be found immediately prior to the string for the rule to be triggered.

Delimited After and Before:
A delimiter (space, special character, start or end of name) must be found both immediately before and after the string for the rule to be triggered.

For example adding the following rule to the Edit-list definition file,

Substitute:T/A

with Word:TRADING AS

Flag:None

will mean the following word will trigger the rule:

DESCENT/ASCENT

and be changed to:

DESCENTRADING ASSCENT

If this is not desired, then add the appropriate delimiter flag. In this case, the rule will now look like:

Substitute:T/A

with Word:TRADING AS

Flag:Delimited Before and After