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Re: st: making srting variable similar across files
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: making srting variable similar across files
Date
Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:05:24 +0100
Don't expect a quick fix here. Hofstadter's Law applies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter's_law
Your title applies: There could be lots of cases in which "srting"
should be really be "string".
More specific advice (.pdf accessible after -search, herrin author- or
-search poen, author-):
SJ-8-3 dm0039 . . . Stata tip 64: Cleaning up user-entered string variables
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Herrin and E. Poen
Q3/08 SJ 8(3):444--445 (no commands)
tip on how to clean up user-entered string variables
Nick
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Prakash Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am looking for some kind of ado file or command which can help me
> combining two files where country names (common variable in two data
> file of string natrure) are written differently as the source of data
> is different. I got one ppt written by Sergiy Radyakin with subject
> Data cleaning in Stata using internet search engines while searching
> on net. Can any one tell me is there any command or ado file available
> for this purpose for stata 10, as I could not understand the
> presentation and remedies provided.
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