Re: st: how to remove symbles or some part from a string?

["Michael I. Lichter" <MLichter@Buffalo.EDU>]

If all of your strings are literally "(" + "name" + ")" with no spaces 
at beginning or end, then, assuming that country is defined as str20 ...

gen str20 new = substr(country, 2, strlen(country) - 2)

-ml

qingf wang wrote:
> If I have "(...)" in a variable, how to remove it?  Thanks a lot!
>
> Example:
>
> country    new
>
> (germany)  germany
> (USA)      usa
> (India)    India
>
>
>       
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