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st: identifying strings that differ on one or two letters
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Dalhia <[email protected]>
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st: identifying strings that differ on one or two letters
Date
Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:59:25 -0800 (PST)
Hello,
Is there a method in stata to identify strings that differ by just one or two letters?
For example:
comp_name
Jayanthi chemicals
Jayanth chemicals
Jay chemicals
So here the first two should be identified since they differ by only one letter, but not the last one since it differs by 4 letters? Is there a way to do this in stata?
thanks. I appreciate your help.
dalhia
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