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On 2012-12-08, at 4:23 PM, thomas bourveau <thomas.bourveau@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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