RE: st: identifying strings that differ on one or two letters

[Dalhia <ggs_da@yahoo.com>]

Hello, 
Thanks. I have a PC with Windows 2007. Does strgroup not work with Windows 2007? 
dalhia


--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
> Subject: RE: st: identifying strings that differ on one or two letters
> To: "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Date: Friday, November 19, 2010, 6:16 PM
> On -strgroup-, the pertiment
> information appears to be within the help file:
> 
> "strgroup is implemented as a plugin in order to minimize
> memory requirements and to maximize speed. 
> Unfortunately, plugins are specific to the hardware
>     architecture and software framework of your
> computer, i.e., plugins are not cross-platform.  Define
> a platform by two characteristics: machine type and
> operating
>     system.  Stata stores these
> characteristics in c(machine_type) and c(os), respectively.
> strgroup supports the following platforms at this time:
> 
>          Machine type 
>              
>    Operating system
>          PC   
>                
>          Windows
>          PC (64-bit
> x86-64)         
>    Unix
>          Macintosh 
>                
>     MacOSX
>          Macintosh (Intel
> 64-bit)       MacOSX"
> 
> The message appears to imply that your platform is not
> supported. 
> 
> On -soundex()- evidently that function classifies more
> coarsely than you need. 
> 
> These string matching problems are very difficult to
> automate in the sense of replicating what a knowledgeable
> human would do. 
> 
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> 
> 
> Dalhia
> 
> I tried both techniques suggested by the list (thank you
> Dmitry and Scott). But neither seem to work, and I am hoping
> you can tell me what is wrong. 
> 
> I can't seem to load "strgroup." When I try to install it
> on stata 11, it gives me the following message:
> 
> "package does not contain strgroup.plugin for WIN64A
> platform could not load strgroup.pkg from http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/s/";
> 
> I'm sure there is a simple fix, but my stata code knowledge
> is very basic, and I'm not sure how to fix this problem. 
> 
> I also tried Soundex, but it identifies completely
> different companies as the same. For example, suniti
> commercials ltd, sunnytex investments pvt ltd, sunteck
> realty & infrastructure ltd, syndicate bank, all get the
> same soundex code S532. And soundex does not seem to allow
> any options that might limit matches to names that are very
> similar. 
> 
> 
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