You have probably hit upon one of several bugs that have been found in
reclink -- all having to do with embedded quotes within matching
strings or tempfile paths with spaces or quotes. I have a newer
version which I have been planning to send to SSC and will also
directly email a copy to you.
Let me know if the problem persists.
Michael Blasnik
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Pacher S (OS)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear statalist users,
>
> I am using Stata 9.1 and want to merge two datasets by company names.
> As these names are not perfectly similar in both datasets, I use the reclink.ado file.
> However, after a certain period reclink stopps and asks for an additional closed bracket.
> I do not know why this happens.
>
> I have the following syntax:
>
> .reclink cname using "d:\Compustat_reclink.dta" , idmaster(id1) idusing(id2) gen(score)
>
>
> When I run this command, the program works fine. However, after approximately 15% of the process it stopps.
> As you can see below, it finishes about 15% of the task.
>
>
> Here is the message that appears:
>
> .Going through 54114 observation to assess fuzzy matches, each .=5% complete
> ...) required
> r(100);
>
> It is probably a very simple mistake but I tried it several times now and the result is always similar.
> Any comment would be highly appreciated.
>
>
> Sebastian Pacher
> PhD Candidate
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