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From | Michael Blasnik <michael.blasnik@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: possible bug in reclink? |
Date | Fri, 3 Dec 2010 23:36:45 -0500 |
As the author of reclink, I'm aware of some lurking bugs that cause it to crash when encountering quote characters (single quotes usually) embedded in the strings being matched. It's been in my list of things to do when I find the time -- for more than a year. I have not actually seen the error message that you report before so perhaps it is some other problem.. You can try to work around the bug by removing quote characters from the strings before running reclink or you could send your data to me so I can try to finally fix reclink. Michael On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Rense Corten <r.corten@uu.nl> wrote: > > Hi list, > > I've been trying to use reclink (by Michael Blasnik) to merge two > files by city names, but the program terminates with a stange error. > Here's the command: > reclink city_name using cbscities.dta, idmaster(id) idusing(postcode) > gen (mscore) > > And here's the output: > 16 perfect matches found > Going through 64001 observation to assess fuzzy matches, each .=5% complete > option izbat not allowed > r(198) > > Because I did not specify "izbat", I suspect a bug in reclink. > > Is anyone familiar with this error, or even better, has a solution? > > Rense * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/