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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jean Eid
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:22 AM
To: stata
Subject: st: manipulating string variables
I have been trying to do the following with no luck (This is a
simplification rather than exact procedure needed)
Suppose I declare a global variable
global myglobal "hello world, how are you today"
now what I want to do is the following:
a) see whether the string text today exist in $myglobal
b) replace "today" by "tomorrow"
c) instead of "are" I need to change the "a" to "b" let's say.
I know this does not make sense to you right now but I have all these
regressions defined as global variables and need to manipulate them.
Can this be done in Stata?
I have checked strmatch and the likes but am not able to work it. I am
looking for something like grep, sub and the likes in Linux.
If you know how to do this Please provide a workable example.