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RE: st: RE: Re: breaking strings


From   "Terra Curtis" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: Re: breaking strings
Date   Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:47:14 -0400

Nick,

Thanks for the tip.  I was just about to use Dev's suggestion and was
realizing how lengthy that could have become.  There was one change I made
to your code, and I thought I should note it for the record here:

You wrote:
	replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,",","")
  	replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,".","")
But this produced a syntax error.

It should be:
	replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,",","", .)
  	replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,".","", .)
Where the "." at the end informs stata to replace ALL ocurrences of either
"," or "." within the string myvar.  See
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?string+functions

Otherwise, it seems to work perfectly.  Thanks again.


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Winter
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:37 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: Re: breaking strings

  replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,",","")
  replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,".","")

Then use -split-.

--NIck Winter

At 11:16 AM 9/29/2005, you wrote:
>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
>

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