Check out -fndmtch2- or -fndmtch- from SSC. At first sight they don't
address this problem, but there are at least two ways forward:
It sounds as if you have surnames and full names (or the equivalent in
your area). -split- the fullnames and work with the separate variables.
Clone one of the programs above but modify the code to look for string
inclusion rather than strict equality.
Nick
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Dalhia
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.
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