st: editing words within a string variable

[Michael McCulloch <mm@pinest.org>]

Greetings Stata list members,
I have been unsuccessful searching the archives for commands (which will 
not require programming) that will do the following:

1.      Edit words within a string variable that contains several words
2.      Display this string variable with each word abbreviated to one or 
two letters.

Can anyone suggest a method?




Best wishes,
Michael


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Michael McCulloch, LAc, MPH
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