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Re: st: Spelling errors in string variables


From   Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Spelling errors in string variables
Date   Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:14:02 -0500

You might try -strgroup- , available on SSC; it matches strings based on their Levenshtein edit distance.

You may also want to

  replace myvar=lower(myvar)

to avoid trapping case differences (Mexico vs mexico).

hth,
Jeph

On 1/9/2013 7:02 AM, Estrella Gomez wrote:
Does anybody know how can I check the existence of spelling error in my
dataset? I have two string variables with nearly 1,500,000 observations,
and I would like to check if in some cases there are different names for
the same individual (i.e.: Mexico / Mejico / mexico)

Thank you
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