As previous learning resources are very comprehensive and readily accessible, I will develop exercises and solutions.

Goals:

(1) Let's do something fun!

(2) Let's do real world implementation.

(3) Let's explore text data.

(4) Let's try challenging exercises.

Previous learning resource produced in SOC 561 class (from Jenn's webpage):

http://soc596.blogspot.com/

Regular Expressions, year 2.pdf

Other resources (from Jenn's webpage):

Regular expressions available in Stata: http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/regular-expressions/

Regular expression commands in Stata: http://repec.org/wcsug2007/medeiros_reg_ex.pdf

Example of using a regular expression: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/regex.htm