st: Matching Names

[Max Perez Leon <a20033198@pucp.edu.pe>]

Hello statalist users,

I am having a big problem trying to merge to datasets with names. The problem is
that there are tons of typos in both datasets. Examples bellow:

DATASET 1: --------------------- DATASET 2:

NAMES--------------------------- NAMES

LUIS P�REZ --------------------- LUIS P�REZ
WILLIAM SMITH ------------------ WILLIAM SMITHSS
JORGE F. CHOCAN ---------------- JORGE F CHOCANOS
P. BROWN ----------------------- PAUL BROWN
ENRIQUETA GAUDENCIA------------- ENRIQUETA G

I could do it by hand but I have 52568 obs and more to come. I am trying to
establish a method using regular expressions so that I can merge correctly the
datasets.
Any help will be very much appreciated, 
Thanks for your time,
Max Perez Leon
PUCP-IEP


        
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