Re: st: Extract a letter between numbers

[Patrick McNamara <patrick.mcnamara@efficiency20.com>]

Thanks for the help on this guys :)  I ended up using a combination of
concatenate, reverse and using [0-9] [A-Z], depending on what the
error was. I just gotta work on writing the scripts so they'll be
usable for others/in the future. I'm not good at writing them quickly
like the rest of you guys :)

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Dimitriy V. Masterov
<dvmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This does not work perfectly, but it illustrates the principles
> involved. It may work a lot better if you standardize some things,
> like change North to No (that is the one example where it fails
> below). The code uses seconde and dsconcat which you will need to
> install from scc.
>
>
> *********************************************************
> /* We need some fake dirty data, you have your own */
> clear
> set obs 6
> gen     add=""
> replace add = "22v46 Kim Dr." in 1
> replace add = "123d Main St." in 2
> replace add = "Crazy69 Blvd." in 3
> replace add = "-5x9 X Blvd." in 4
> replace add = "Too Dirty to Clean" in 5
> replace add = "56e54 Oak st Chicago, Illinois" in 6
>
> list
> save dirty.dta, replace
>
> /* Make some fake clean data */
> clear
> set obs 7
> gen add=""
> replace add = "2245 Kim Dr." in 1
> replace add = "123 Main St." in 2
> replace add = "59 X Blvd." in 3
> replace add = "Clean, but unused" in 4
> replace add = "5654 North Oak Chicago Illinois" in 5
> replace add = "5654 No. Oak St" in 6
> replace add = "5654 Oak St" in 7
> list
> save clean.dta, replace
> clear
>
> /* This part appends the 2 data sets, dsconcat is from scc */
> dsconcat dirty.dta clean.dta, append dsn(datafrom)
>
> /* match is like a group id, may need to adjust threshold for match
> sensitivity */
> strgroup add, gen(match) threshold(.35)
> sort match
>
>
> /* secode is from scc, turns the string variable into numeric */
> sencode datafrom, replace
> reshape wide add, i(match) j(datafrom)
> **************************************************************
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