st: question about substracting a part of a string in a dummy variab

["Erik Brouwer" <ebrouwer20@hotmail.com>]

Dear Users

I have a question. I have a string variable containing a short description 
(3 till 5 words per observation). What I would like to do is to make a dummy 
which equals 1 if the string variable contains the word "action".  The word 
"action" is not allways on the same place. Can someone help me?

thanks

Erik Brouwer

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