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String standardization

Source: R/name_standardize.R
name_standardize.Rd

Standardize strings prior to performing a match, using the following transformations:

  1. standardize case (base::toupper)

  2. remove accents/diacritics (stringi::stri_trans_general)

  3. replace punctuation characters with whitespace

  4. remove extraneous space characters with (stringr::str_squish)

Usage

name_standardize(x)

Arguments

x

a string

Value

The standardized version of x

Examples

name_standardize("angela_merkel")
#> [1] "ANGELA MERKEL"
name_standardize("QUOIREZ, Fran\U00E7oise D.")
#> [1] "QUOIREZ FRANCOISE D"