-matchit- command is not producing result neither showing an error

[Marufa Akhter]

I tried to use the -matchit- command to match company names (str var). i have generated numeric ID using egen command because the identifiers i have in my dataset are a mix of letters and numbers and are String. after executing the command, Stata shows that it is "computing result" but nothing happens after that. I am not sure if I am doing anything wrong here.

i have 2 separate datasets. my master file has repeated company names each year. for example, Company ABC appears 3 times in the year 2018, 5 times in 2019 etc. i have divided my using dataset in small chunks and still face the same problem. can anyone suggest me what should i do?



. matchit ID_egn Issuer using "\\SHARES\data\Users\makhter\Docs\Documents\DI BT Year 1\HFI\New folder\corp bond\all countries\Financials\ORBIS MATCH\Orbis Mached_WRDS dta\O
> rbis_name tic_1.dta", idu(ID_egn) txtu(NAME_INTERNAT)
Matching current dataset with \\SHARES\data\Users\makhter\Docs\Documents\DIBT Year 1\HFI\New folder\corp bond\all countries\Financials\ORBIS MATCH\Orbis Mached_WRDS dta\Or
> bis_name tic_1.dta
Similarity function: bigram
Loading USING file: \\SHARES\data\Users\makhter\Docs\Documents\DIBT Year 1\HFI\New folder\corp bond\all countries\Financials\ORBIS MATCH\Orbis Mached_WRDS dta\Orbis_name t
> ic_1.dta
Indexing USING file.
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Done!
Computing results
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