Thanks, Nick. Your original solution worked perfectly. And I think you're
right, -end- and -split- are useful, but in other contexts.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 4:58 AM
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Subject: RE: st: String help
This won't get one far in solving this problem.
Nor will -split-. That is no criticism of either, as each was designed for
different problems.
The problem needs lower-level functions.
Nick
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> Try also the egen-function "ends". Using that you can split a string
> into parts, specifying the partitioner.
> "Terra Curtis"
>
> I am dealing with a string variable called 'string' like the example
> below (this is copied from the data browser):
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