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st: RE: appling string functions across observations


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: appling string functions across observations
Date   Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:00:48 +0100

Check out -fndmtch2- or -fndmtch- from SSC. At first sight they don't
address this problem, but there are at least two ways forward: 

It sounds as if you have surnames and full names (or the equivalent in
your area). -split- the fullnames and work with the separate variables. 

Clone one of the programs above but modify the code to look for string
inclusion rather than strict equality. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Dalhia

I have a list of two variables: name1 and name2.  I need to check if
name2 occurs in any of the name1s. The regexm command in stata is
perfect for what I want to do, but it checks only one string at a time,
and I need it to somehow rotate over a whole list of names.  

Here is what I  have:  

name1  
ram solanki 
goel mehta
ashish gupta

name2
solanki
mehta

I need to be able to figure out that "solanki" and "mehta" in name2
occur in name1 observation1 and observation2.  


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