clean_company_names: Clean Company Names

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Clean Company Names

Description

Clean Company Names

Usage

clean_company_names(string, thorough = FALSE)

Arguments

string	A company name with unspecified case, punctuation, and suffixes (e.g. "LLC", "Corp").
thorough	A boolean (defaults to FALSE) for deciding whether to check the company names against a list of known large manufacturers, including their acquisitions. Selecting TRUE slows down the operation significantly, taking about 4.8 seconds per thousand company names.

Value

An all-caps company name without extraneous characters, punctuation, and terms removed.

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