Dear readers,
you recently helped me to extract a firm's identifier that was located
at the end of a string variable.
I'm still working with this dataset of layoff announcements.
Now, I need to know to which country an annoucement is related.
To do this, I need to identify if a portion of string (namely the name
of a country) appears at any position in the string.
Specifically, I have a summary (10 to 20 words) of a newspaper article.
This is a string variable.
For each country of the dataset, I created a variable equals to 0.
For example, I have a variable called Canada = 0
I want to replace this variable by 1 if the word Canada or Canadian
appears anywhere in my string variable.
Does anyone have any idea on that.
Thanks in advance
Thomas
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Thomas Bourveau
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