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RE: st: Splitting a string variable


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Splitting a string variable
Date   Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:50:39 +0100

Excellent. 

Replacing trailing zeros looks like 

reverse(substr(reverse(x), indexnot(reverse(x), "0"),.)) 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Jamie Griffin
 
> To remove leading zeros from the string variable x without 
> looping, how
> about:
> 
> replace x=substr(x, indexnot(x, "0"), . )
 
> >>> [email protected] 09/06/05 7:27 pm >>>
> This is not really a splitting problem,
> at least not sensu -split-.
> 
> To remove leading zeros, I would do this:
> 
> quietly {
> 	count if substr(myvar,1,1) == "0"
> 	while `r(N)' {
> 		replace myvar = substr(myvar,2,.) ///
> 		        if substr(myvar,1,1) == "0"
> 		count if substr(myvar,1,1) == "0"
> 	}
> }
> 
> Any solutions without looping?
> 
> Nick
> [email protected] 
> 
>  >>> Raphael Fraser
> 
> I have a string variable of the type listed below:
> 
> id
> 0008
> 0020
> 016A
> 0160C
> 
> How do I remove the leading zeros from this variable? I tried using
> the -split- command, but it removed both leading and trailing zeros.
> The end result should look like this:
> 
> id
> 8
> 20
> 16A
> 160C

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