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Re: st: regular expression -split string an unknown number of times


From   daniel klein <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: regular expression -split string an unknown number of times
Date   Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:37:40 +0200

Might take a little longer to loop, but I don't think -regexm- is needed at all.

What about

foreach x in `c(ALPHA)' {
   qui replace var = subinstr(var, "`x'", " `x'", .)
}
qui replace var = trim(var)

Best
Daniel
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