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Re: st: Spelling errors in string variables
From
Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Spelling errors in string variables
Date
Wed, 9 Jan 2013 06:23:48 -0600
You might try -soundex-
clear
input str8 name
"Mexico"
"Mejico"
"mexico"
end
gen soundex = soundex(name)
l
Scott
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Estrella Gomez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anybody know how can I check the existence of spelling error in my
> dataset? I have two string variables with nearly 1,500,000 observations,
> and I would like to check if in some cases there are different names for
> the same individual (i.e.: Mexico / Mejico / mexico)
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