CLEAN_NAME: Stata module to clean name variables

Adrien Bouguen ()
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Adrien Bouguen: Santa Clara University

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: This program removes blanks, accents, full stops, hyphens and apostrophes within a string variable. It also returns the uppercased version of the variable. clean_name is particularly useful for name matching procedures.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 14.1
Keywords: string processing; names; matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04-02, Revised 2020-05-14
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install clean_name". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/clean_name.sthlp help file (text/plain)

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