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RE: st: RE: extracting a specific portion of a string


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: extracting a specific portion of a string
Date   Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:10:46 +0000

"What I tell you three times is true." 

The Bellman, in Lewis Carroll. The hunting of the snark. 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13/13-h/13-h.htm

Notes: 

1. Many people writing to this list will not need the reference as for them the form "Carroll (1874)" will suffice. 

2. The late, great mathematician Richard Bellman used this to good pedagogic effect in at least one of his books. Alas, I cannot remember where. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Eric Booth

This is (at least) the second time Nick has been kind enough to remind me that strpos() is the modern version of index() -- old habits die hard.  (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-02/msg01111.html)

On Mar 17, 2011, at 4:04 AM, Nick Cox wrote:

> On a detail that might confuse: Eric used -index()- and -strpos()-. In
> essence, -index()- is the old name that still works, while -strpos()-
> is the new name. It's the same function underneath the names.


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