Re: st: Creating single characters from long strings

[Margaret R Grove <margaret.r.grove@Dartmouth.EDU>]

Ah yes - early morning fog here!  No `j' needed.  Nick - I'm not sure 
what you mean about the length(variable) note.  I tried running that 
little program and it did what I wanted.

thanks,
Meg

Nick Cox wrote:

> For a string variable, -length(variable)- is equivalent to
> -length(variable[1])-. That may or may not be a correct answer. 
> Also `j' is the same as `i' here. 
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
> Margaret R Grove
>
> Andri,
>
> Perhaps something like this ....
>
> local len=length(variable)
> local j=0
> forval i=1/`len' {
>     local j=`j'+1
>     gen str1 var`j'=substr(variable,`i',1)
> }
>
> Meg
>
> Andri Rauch wrote:
>   
> > Dear all,
> > I should create single characters from very long strings (ie around
> >     
> 500
>   
> > characters).
> > My original variable abcdefg... should be transformed to:
> > variable_1: a, variable_2: b, variable_3: c, variable_4: d and so
> >     
> on...
>   
> > I assume it should be done by combining the substring and foreach
> > command.
> >     
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