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Re: st: Cleaning Strings and Regular Expressions
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Cleaning Strings and Regular Expressions
Date
Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:54:01 +0000
The alternative would be
gen new_x = x
foreach c in . , ; {
replace new_x = subinstr(new_x, "`c'", "", .)
}
and I don't see what is so bad about that.
Nick
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Tirthankar Chakravarty
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, if it helps you, the -strip- package (SSC, Paul Seed) automates
> the required -subinstr()- in a -for- loop.
>
> clear*
> set obs 1
> g x = "hi.there,gu;ys."
> strip x, of(".,;") g(new_x)
> li
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Cory Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm looking to use regular expressions or another command to remove an
>> arbitrary list of characters from a string. For example, I might want
>> to remove all punctuation so
>> hi.there,gu;ys. becomes hithereguys
>>
>> I'd love to use regexr, but it only replaces the first substring. Is
>> there a way to use (Stata) regular expressions for this? Otherwise I'm
>> stuck with running subinstr in a for loop.
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