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Re: st: substring help


From   Justin Wheeler <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: substring help
Date   Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:29:20 -0400

If the county names are sometimes two words, you could do this to avoid truncating them:

gen cnty = word(cntyname,1)
gen cnty2 = word(cntyname,2) if word(cntyname,3)~=""
replace cnty = cnty + " " + cnty2 if cnty2~=""

Justin

--On Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:32 AM -0400 Heather Gold <[email protected]> wrote:


Dear Fellow Listers -

Someone has probably figured this out previously, but I can't seem to
find exactly what I need in the archives or help...

I have a string variable with county and state names merged as one string
15 characters long. I need to get rid of the trailing state name. For
example, I have:

Genesee NY
Bronx NY
Queens NY

And I want to have only:
Genesee
Bronx
Queens

I tried
  gen cnty=substr(cntyname, -2,2)

But that does the "opposite" of what I want, ie, returns "NY".
Because the county name varies in length, I can't just do a substring of
a specific length, starting from the beginning of the variable.

Shouldn't there be an obvious solution? I can't find it.

Thanks,
Heather


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