gsoundex

[Trevor Andrew]

I would like to use the old handwritten soundex command that allows to specify the length. To copied the code from http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_gsoundex.ado and saved it from an editor as _gsoundex.ado and copied the file into C:\ado\plus\_ However when I try to use the command egen newvar= soundex(oldvar), [Length(int 4)] it doesn't work. Stata says the option [ is not allowed. I also tried to add _gsoundex.pkg into C:\ado\plus\_ Is it possible that the old command does not work with stata 14?

[daniel klein]

You have a couple of syntax elements wring. With few exceptions, you do not type the square brackets; these denote optional arguments. Type

egen newwar = soundex(oldvar) , length(4)