Re: st: Data management question

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

how about

  gen days=len(subinstr(myvar," ","",.))

?


Susan Olivia wrote:
> Dear Stata lister,
>
> I have a variable (say number of days) and is a string
> variable. This variable is represented by XXXX (basically
> the number of X denotes the number of days). 
>
> I would like to create a numeric value for this variable
> (i.e. 4 crosses = 4) . Is there a way I can easily do this
> in Stata? I tried the 'encode' and 'destring' commands, but
> these commands didn't do what I after. 
>
> Thanks in advance for the tips,
>
> Susan
>
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