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After you have split the string into words, how about using strpos to find out where the position of the character "," or "." is and then use substring to retreive the words you need? Can you try that?
Dev
>>> [email protected] 09/29/05 3:59 pm >>>
Thanks, split seems to do the job. However now I have some special cases to
deal with. Say I have a company name like:
Medical Research, Inc.
I want to split this into
Medical
Research
Inc
So that the "," and the "." are dropped. I've tried combining -split- with
the -ignore- option, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything as the comma
and period remain in the split variables. Anyone know how to take care of
this?
Thanks,
Terra
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:16 PM
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Subject: st: Re: breaking strings
help split
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terra Curtis" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:08 PM
Subject: st: breaking strings
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I am trying to find a string function (or equivalent series of code lines)
> to accomplish the following. I have a string variable which contains
> various company names, eli lilly & co, for example. I want to break this
> string into 4 separate data points, namely eli, lilly, &, co. The
> delimeter
> is a space. Anyone know how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Terra
>
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