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RE: st: Help with string problem


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Help with string problem
Date   Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:00:11 +0100

-omit(space)- confuses syntaxes and will not 
do what you think it will. It omits "s", "p", etc. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Fred Wolfe
 
> That is a great egen. But it doesn't seem to work completely to omit 
> HEX(A0), unless I have done something wrong. Always likely.
> 
> 
> . use fwbids,clear
> . egen apatkey2 = sieve(apatkey),  keep(a n o)
> . gen l1 = length(apatkey)
> . gen l2 = length(apatkey2)
> 
> . egen apatkey3 = sieve(apatkey2),  omit(space)
> . gen l3 = length(apatkey3)
> 
> . egen apatkey4 = sieve(apatkey3),  keep(a n)
> . gen l4 = length(apatkey4)
> 
>        
> +-------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------------+
>        |      apatkey   greger       apatkey2   l1   l2       
> apatkey3   l3 
>       apatkey4   l4 |
>        
> |-------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------------|
>     1. | 
> ABI000000-01        1   ABI000000-01   12   12   ABI000000-01   12 
> ABI00000001   11 |
>     2. | 
> AHR000000           1    AHR000000     12   11    AHR000000     11 
> AHR000000    9 |
>     3. | 
> AHR360227           1    AHR360227     12   11    AHR360227     11 
> AHR360227    9 |
>     4. | 
> ALB431118           1    ALB431118     12   11    ALB431118     11 
> ALB431118    9 |
>     5. | 
> ALD771122           1    ALD771122     12   11    ALD771122     11 
> ALD771122    9 |
>        
> |-------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------------|
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 10:13 AM 8/25/2006, Nick Cox wrote:
> >"you" here presumably meaning Fred's collaborators.
> >
> >There is a home-grown -egen- function called -sieve()-
> >in -egenmore- from SSC that could be used to keep
> >alphanumeric characters only.
> >
> >Nick
> >[email protected]
> >
> >Rafal Raciborski
> >
> > > you could also use the clean() function in excel first, 
> which removes
> > > all nonprintable characters, before pasting into stata.

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