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Re: st: Macro parsing question
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Macro parsing question
Date
Tue, 7 Jan 2014 02:46:17 +0000
You can go
local X1 = substr("`X'", 1, strpos("`X'", "X") - 1)
local X2 = substr("`X'", strpos("`X'", "X") + 1, .)
or
gettoken X1 X : X, parse("X")
gettoken sep X2 : X, parse("X")
Nick
[email protected]
On 7 January 2014 02:28, Benjamin Villena <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> Suppose I have a macro X of this form:
>
> local X part_oneXpart_two
>
> How could I generally obtain two macros taking values "part_one" and
> "part_two"?
>
> So, in general, I need to count characters until the "X" and obtain a
> word from the first character until the one just before "X". Then, I
> need to obtain a word from the character just after "X" until the end.
>
> Thanks
>
> Benjamín
>
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