StandardizeString {PPRL}

Standardize String

Description

Preprocessing (cleaning) of strings prior to linkage.

Usage

StandardizeString(strings)

Arguments

strings

A character vector of strings to be standardized.

Details

Strings are capitalized, letters are substituted as described below. Leading and trailing blanks are removed. Other non-ASCII characters are deleted.

• Replace "Æ" with "AE"

• Replace "æ" with "AE"

• Replace "Ä" with "AE"

• Replace "ä" with "AE"

• Replace "Å" with "A"

• Replace "å" with "A"

• Replace "Â" with "A"

• Replace "â" with "A"

• Replace "À" with "A"

• Replace "à" with "A"

• Replace "Á" with "A"

• Replace "á" with "A"

• Replace "Ç" with "C"

• Replace "Ç" with "C"

• Replace "Ê" with "E"

• Replace "ê" with "E"

• Replace "È" with "E"

• Replace "è" with "E"

• Replace "É" with "E"

• Replace "é" with "E"

• Replace "Ï" with "I"

• Replace "ï" with "I"

• Replace "Î" with "I"

• Replace "î" with "I"

• Replace "Ì" with "I"

• Replace "ì" with "I"

• Replace "Í" with "I"

• Replace "í" with "I"

• Replace "Ö" with "OE"

• Replace "ö" with "OE"

• Replace "Ø" with "O"

• Replace "ø" with "O"

• Replace "Ô" with "O"

• Replace "ô" with "O"

• Replace "Ò" with "O"

• Replace "ò" with "O"

• Replace "Ó" with "O"

• Replace "ó" with "O"

• Replace "ß" with "SS"

• Replace "Ş" with "S"

• Replace "ş" with "S"

• Replace "ü" with "UE"

• Replace "Ü" with "UE"

• Replace "Ů" with "U"

• Replace "Û" with "U"

• Replace "û" with "U"

• Replace "Ù" with "U"

• Replace "ù" with "U"

Value

Returns a character vector with standardized strings.

Examples

strings = c("Päter", " Jürgen", " Roß")
StandardizeString(strings)