st: Re: Stata Journal and piece of string variables

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

In addition to Scott Merryman's reply using substr(), a more general 
approach along the lines of what you were trying is Stata's regular 
expression matching function -match().  For this example:

drop if match(automob,"*car")


Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TEWODAJ MOGUES" <tmogues@students.wisc.edu>
To: "Stata _" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 2:42 AM
Subject: st: Stata Journal and piece of string variables


<snip>.

> Another question (I don't find lots of info on the search regarding
> string variables): Is there a way for me to refer to a piece of string
> var? Say there is a string var called -automob- with values redcar and
> bluecar. Suppose I want to do something like
> drop if automob == " * car"
> thus gettingn rid of rows where the values are redcar or bluecar
> CLearly this syntax doesn't work, but is there a way to do something in
> this spirit without too complicated splitting-up of variables?
>
> Thanks,
> Tewodaj

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