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Re: st: Data editor


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Data editor
Date   Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:26:25 +0000

-charlist- from SSC is a tool for finding unusual characters in string
variables. See also the help for -split- for how to exploit what you
find.

Nick

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Marie Bérégovoy
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm having problem with splitting a variable.
> I am using stata 11 for mac.
>
> The substantive problem is this : I have excel sheet with 13 000 events. In a column I have a variable representing the name of companies involved in this event. My problem is that there are multiples companies involved in ONE event.
>
> I want to split the variable to have an event for each company. Saying that for example event 1 involves company A, company B and Company C (all in the same cell) i want to have : first row and first column : event 1 ; first row and second column : company A ; second row and first column : event 1 ; second row and second column : company B ; etc.
>
> My data looks like this
> event_date            VC_Name
> ---------------------------------------
> 2013/02/05            Company A
>                                  Company B
>                                  Company C
> 2013/02/06            Company D
>                                  Company E
>                                  Company F
> 2013/02/09            Company G
>                                  Company H
>                                  Company I
>
> I need date looks like
> event_date            VC_Name
> ---------------------------------------
> 2013/02/05            Company A
> 2013/02/05            Company B
> 2013/02/05            Company C
> 2013/02/06            Company D
> 2013/02/06            Company E
> 2013/02/06            Company F
> 2013/02/09            Company G
> 2013/02/09            Company H
> 2013/02/09            Company I
>
> Is there a way to split the cell as I described above ? I think there might be a "automatically wrapped" function in the company cell (the character is OA in SAS). I have a lot of datas so it would be really useful.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Marie Beregovoy
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