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RE: st: comparing strings
From
"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
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Subject
RE: st: comparing strings
Date
Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:41:14 +0100
You could, but with just two variables
gen newvar = name != name1
is much more direct.
Nick
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Abhimanyu Arora
You can use egen newvar=diff(name name1)
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:55 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have two variables name and name1 that contain strings. How can I compare
> whether the strings are the same or not?
> For example in the same row name can be "John Smith" and name1 can be "Ray
> Adams" so they are not the same. Or there can be another row that both name
> and name1 are "Jane Gore" so they are the same.
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