If you have a lot of repeated values in your word variable, you might
consider turning the string variable into a numeric variable with
labels:
encode word, gen(word2)
It would make the data set smaller (so it will load faster), and the
label word2 would keep what your original variable says.
On 5/22/06, Richard Goldstein <[email protected]> wrote:
use the substr function, as in
gen str word2=substr(word1,1,50)
to get the first 50 characters of word1 into the new variable called word2
Rich
susanne neckermann wrote:
> Hello,
> I cannot open a data set in my intercooled Stata version because one of
> the variables is a string with 102 characters and intercooled Stata only
> allows for 80.
> I can open the data set at a friend's computer who has the full version
> of stata. But we have not found out, what the command is to cut the
> length of this particular string. so that we can change the data set and
> I can work with it on my computer.
> It would be o.k., if only the first 50 characters or so remain.
>
> Can you help?
> Thank you very much.
> Greetings from Switzerland,
> Susanne
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