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RE: st: Re: Extract information from a string variable


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Re: Extract information from a string variable
Date   Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:27:57 -0000

Steven pointed to a regex approach. This is more pedestrian. 

gen alpha = "" 
gen number = "" 

forval i = 1/8 { 
	replace alpha = alpha + substr(id, `i', 1) ///
		if inrange(substr(id, `i', 1), "A", "Z") 
	replace alpha = alpha + " " if inrange(substr(id, `i', 1), "0",
"9") 
	replace number = number + substr(id, `i', 1) /// 
			if inrange(substr(id, `i', 1), "0", "9") 
} 

split word 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Steven Samuels

Martyn, this may get you started.

**************************CODE BEGINS**************************
clear
drop _all
input str8 id
INR80TMA
IR1NT
INR888
end
list
label define alpha 1 "str" 0 "num"
gen id_l=length(id)
tab id_l

****assumes ID's have length <=8****

forvalues i=1/8{
gen v`i' =substr(id,`i',1)
gen alpha`i'= regexm(v`i',"[a-zA-Z]")
label values alpha`i' alpha
}
***************************CODE ENDS***************************

On Mar 3, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Sherriff, Martyn wrote:

> I have data set which should have a string identifier of the form  
> LLLNNLLL such as INR80TMA from which I can extract the first 3  
> letters, 2 numbers and last 3 letters as sub-identifiers.  
> Unfortunately some of the data has been miscoded such as IR1NT.
>
> How can I extract the letter, number, letter code from this, or is  
> it a case of editing all the codes to the correct format. I am  
> using Stata 10.

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