Hi Tim,
thanks for the reply - not what I was hoping for so let me have another go!!
Regarding the matching of the selection's names I was thinking about horse racing only and as you say yourself, "In horse racing it's less common for a horse's name to differ dramatically from BetFair's spelling (but happens sometimes)."
So for me that is absolutely no different to me copying 'n' pasting from a website into a text file and then having to remove any apostrophes. It is up to me as the user to check the data is correct and consistent. I don't even check the spelling from one website to Betfair now so I really don't see that as an issue!
As to your final point, which I think I have addressed above, "...because of possible errors we don't do this as we can't take responsibility for our software's reliability in this case". I think the terms reliability and accuracy are being confused here. Software
reliability is does it run reliably and produce the output expected (i.e. Text files)? The
accuracy of the output (i.e. Spelling of names) is the user's responsibility/risk, not the software's.
Have I convinved you yet?
I'd be interested in what other think about this.
regards
Wez