| From | "Paolo Grillo, MD" <[email protected]> |
| To | [email protected] |
| Subject | st: Re: replace a string variable |
| Date | Mon, 09 May 2005 16:11:21 +0200 |
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Dear Statalist I have a dataset with a string variable named VEND. It contains a lot of different companies with a varied different names although often they indicate the same company. For example for three different firms STRYKER
ITALIA SRL Where the names are easily STRYKER SULZER ZIMMER How can I replace these strings with the same cluster name? Do you know if there is a similar command as . replace vend if vend=="zimmer***" or I have to build a do file with a lot of -substr- and -index- command Thanks in Advance Paolo Grillo -- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Paolo Grillo MD Nephrologist Statisticians EPOCA Research Center for Occupational, Clinical & Environmental Epidemiology Department of Occupational and Environmental Health "Clinica L. Devoto" University of Milan Via San Barnaba 8 20122 Milano - ITALY Tel: +39 02 503-20148 Fax: +39 02 503-20126 E-Mail [email protected]* * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ |
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