hi,
I have a list of two variables: name1 and name2. I need to check if name2 occurs in any of the name1s. The regexm command in stata is perfect for what I want to do, but it checks only one string at a time, and I need it to somehow rotate over a whole list of names.
Here is what I have:
name1
ram solanki
goel mehta
ashish gupta
name2
solanki
mehta
I need to be able to figure out that "solanki" and "mehta" in name2 occur in name1 observation1 and observation2.
Any help will be much appreciated.
thanks
dalhia
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