# Fuzzy Match

**URL:** <https://community.automationedge.com/t/fuzzy-match/221>\
**Category:** Get Help & Discuss\
**Created:** [February 13, 2018, 11:09am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/fuzzy-match/221 "2018-02-13T11:09:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![madhavi.bade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@madhavi.bade](https://community.automationedge.com/u/madhavi.bade)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 11:09am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/fuzzy-match/221/1 "2018-02-13T11:09:14Z")

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Hi,

What is Fuzzy Match?

Regards,  
Madhavi Bade

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**Author:** ![komal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d07c76/32.png) [@komal](https://community.automationedge.com/u/komal)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 5:16am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/fuzzy-match/221/3 "2018-02-27T05:16:44Z")

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Hi Madhavi,

The Fuzzy Match step finds strings that potentially match using duplicate-detecting algorithms that calculate the similarity of two streams of data. This step returns matching values as a separated list as specified by user-defined minimal or maximal values.