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Re: st: indicator for "if cell contains the word or phrase"
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: indicator for "if cell contains the word or phrase"
Date
Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:05:59 +0100
. gen stuff_present = strpos(strvar, "stuff") > 0
For a case-insensitive match compare "stuff" with -lower(strvar)-.
Nick
On 16 Sep 2012, at 15:44, Shehzad Ali <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a variable var1 that describes various situations in the form
of long description. I want to generate a dummy variable var2 equal
to 1 if var1 contains a certain word 'xyz' or phrase. var1 may
contain other words but I want to check if xyz or a certain phrase
appears in the cell or not.
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