Re: st: substring search

["Rosy Reynolds" <rr@dandr.demon.co.uk>]

It is particularly useful to hear of the -index- function because it does 
not seem to be in the documentation for Stata 9 (through help, search, or 
the printed manuals under string functions), although -indexnot- is 
described.
Rosy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Harless" <dwharles@vcu.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: st: substring search



> Andy Choi wrote:
> > Hi, I am a beginner at STATA.  I am cleaning a
> > medication file, and I was wondering if anyone knew
> > how to search for a substring without specifying its
> > position in the string.  Thanks, Andy
> Try the -index- function as in
> list if index(var_name,"ABC")
> or creating an indicator variable
> gen has = (index(var_name,"ABC"))
>
> I hope this helps.
> Dave Harless
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