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RE: RE: st: RE: problems on the string functions


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: RE: st: RE: problems on the string functions
Date   Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:45:05 -0000

. help capture 

Nick 
[email protected] 

[email protected]

thank you for your help.
My another doubt is the length of variable v2 changes among
observations.
How to decide the first number in the -substr-?
If the length for certain observations is 2, substr(v2,4,1) will cause
missing value.

From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>

gen v3 = v1 
qui forval i = 1/10 { 
replace v3 = subinstr(v3, substr(v2, `i', 1), "", 1) 
} 

Nick 
[email protected] 

[email protected]

Thank you very much, Baum and Nick.
I understood the use of -subinstr-, -word- and -strpos- with your help.
Another problem is how to deal with it if the strings excluded from
another string variable is not consecutive.

for example,
clear
input str10 (v1 v2)
ab123d 12d
efg34 f4
end

I want to get v3 as followings
v3 
ab3
eg3

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