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Re: st: replacing asterisks in a string
From
Eric Booth <[email protected]>
To
"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: replacing asterisks in a string
Date
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:43:53 +0000
<>
***********!
clear
inp str10(v1)
"*"
"("
")"
"test(*)"
"tes*t2(*)*"
end
g v2 = strpos(v1, `"("')
g v3 = strpos(v1, `"*"')
g v2a = subinstr(v1, `"("', "", .)
g v3a = subinstr(v1, `"*"', "", .)
//all together//
foreach s in * ( ) {
replace v1 = subinstr(v1, `"`s'"', "", .)
}
***********!
- Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
Office: +979.845.6754
On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Lim, Raymond wrote:
> Hello Statalisters,
> How does one flag a string containing an asterisk, which in Stata is a wildcard? I want to flag the observations with an asterisk and then delete the asterisk. This is what I would do to flag/delete a parenthesis.
>
> replace flag_parenthesis=1 if strmatch(varname, "*)")
> replace varname=subinstr(varname,")","",.)
>
> Thanks!
> -Raymond
>
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