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RE: st: separating string variable into components


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: separating string variable into components
Date   Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:59:41 +0100

This is good advice, but doesn't help in this problem. 
Stata's built-in definition of words can't be squared 
with the string and substring notation used in Radu's 
data. See my previous posting for a suggested solution. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Ada Ma
 
> you should be able to find out more about these commands if you look
> it up on -help string functions-:
> 
> * first count the number of strings in your string variable
> gen wordcount=wordcount(mystring)
> 
> tab wordcount
> 
> gen split1=word(mystring,1)
> ...
> 
> so on and so forth.
 
Radu Ban 

> > I have a string variable that looks like this:
> >
> > mystring
> >    (1 2 3) (1 2 2)  (7 8 9)    (1 3 4)
> >  (2 3 4)    (1 2 3) (10 11 12)
> >
> > etc. The numbers inside the brackets are made up. The 
> problem is that
> > the number of spaces between brackets is not constant. Also 
> the number
> > of brackets is not constant across observations. I want to 
> split this
> > variable so that each bracket is contained in its own variable, i.e.
> >
> > split1   split2    split3         split4
> > (1 2 3)  (1 2 2)  (7 8 9)        (1 3 4)
> > (2 3 4)  (1 2 3)  (10 11 12)   <blank>
> >
> > I've tried the -split- command, with various numbers of 
> spaces as the
> > parse character, but that doesn't work, i.e. it doesn't split if i
> > specify too many blanks, or it creates blank observations 
> if i specify
> > too few blanks.

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