See this function from Stata help
strmatch(s1,s2) evaluates to 1 if s1 matches the pattern s2; otherwise,
it returns 0.
At 06:08 AM 1/13/2006, you wrote:
Hi Statalist users,
I am using the metatrim command (sbe39.2) and saving the results in a new
dataset. I would like to create my own plots from the new dataset and
need to differentiate between the original estimates and those generated
by the metatrim command. The new dataset contains the variable 'id' which
contains string values "fill1", "fill 2" etc and "study 1", "study 2"
etc. I have tried the following commands:
gen id2=id
replace id2 "filled" if id=="fill*"
which didn't work. I cannot find any reference of a wildcard being used
in such a situation, is it possible? I'm sure there is a very simple
solution to my problem so I apologise in advance!
Thank you for your help,
Joanna
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