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Answer:

Yes. A better program would allow inexact matches, but this is complicated.


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A more realistic program would let the user enter the name to look up and matches could be approximate. But in this program, the target name must be matched exactly. Even upper and lower case letters much be correct.

Once upon a time, telephone switchboard operators had the job of looking up phone numbers using inexact matches. Computers have taken over this job. Inexact pattern matching is a subject of considerable commercial importance. You might wish to Goggle the subject.

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