Re: st: Creating single characters from long strings

[Margaret R Grove <margaret.r.grove@Dartmouth.EDU>]

Andri,

Perhaps something like this ....

local len=length(variable)
local j=0
forval i=1/`len' {
   local j=`j'+1
   gen str1 var`j'=substr(variable,`i',1)
}

Meg

Andri Rauch wrote:
> Dear all,
> I should create single characters from very long strings (ie around 500
> characters).
> My original variable abcdefg... should be transformed to:
> variable_1: a, variable_2: b, variable_3: c, variable_4: d and so on...
>
> I assume it should be done by combining the substring and foreach
> command.
>
> Hope that someone can help,
>
> Thanks in advance
> Andri
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