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Re: st: Remove the middle part of a string variable
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Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
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Statalist Statalist <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Remove the middle part of a string variable
Date
Sun, 5 Jan 2014 18:50:36 -0600
On Jan 5, 2014, at 6:30 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2014, at 6:27 PM, Phil Clayton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> replace myvar=regexs(1) + regexs(2) if regexm(myvar, "(.*)\..*([A-Z])")
>
> Good, but don't -replace- in this situation.
Also, based on the problem description, you may not want the greedy .* in the middle. For example, the following would handle multiple letters at the end:
gen newvar = regexs(1)+regexs(2) if regexm(myvar,"([0-9]+)\.[0-9]+([A-Z]+)")
replace newvar = myvar if mi(newvar)
-- Phil
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