Re: st: Data management: code to be able to..

From	Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
To	[email protected]
Subject	Re: st: Data management: code to be able to..
Date	Mon, 4 Jun 2007 09:51:22 -0500

On Jun 4, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Nick Cox wrote:

My solution is

gen numid = word(id, -1)

This is equivalent to Phil's

... = substr(trim(id),-strpos(reverse(trim(id))," ")+1,.)

Very nice -- thanks. I use the extended macro function -word # of- all the time but was completely unaware of -word()-. Reminds me that I should really reread -help functions- from time to time to make sure I'm not reinventing things.

-- Phil

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- RE: st: Data management: code to be able to..
  - From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>