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Gaurav Sinha 27Gaurav Sinha 27 

Fuzzy match of strings

Hi All Veterans

Is there any way we can do Fuzzy match of strings in salesforce, lets say we want to compare the value of first name of a contact to find the duplicate based on fuzzy match. 

Thanks and regards
Gaurav Sinha
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Khan AnasKhan Anas (Salesforce Developers) 
Hi Gaurav,

Greetings to you!

Please refer to the below links which might help you further with the above requirement.

https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/9619/fuzzy-matching-for-duplicate-address-checks

https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/65950/soql-bulk-fuzzy-searching

https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/127308/is-it-possible-to-leverage-sfdc-duplicate-matching-fuzzy-algorithms-within-apex

https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/10705/fuzzy-logic-matching-on-company-name-leads

https://blog.bessereau.eu/assets/pdfs/salesforce_data_quality_duplicate_prevention.pdf

https://www.veonconsulting.com/matching-duplicate-in-salesforce/

I hope it helps you.

Kindly let me know if it helps you and close your query by marking it as solved so that it can help others in the future. It will help to keep this community clean.

Thanks and Regards,
Khan Anas