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Apr 9, 2022 - Python
Create a user example (see #2) which shows how StringCompare can be used to match business names.
That is, suppose we have a long list L of business names. Given another business name provided by a user, we want to be able to find the name in L which most closely matches it.
We can address this problem in a few steps: