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st: RE: decompose string
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"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: decompose string
Date
Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:06:20 -0000
I'd use names that make it explicit which character is included.
forval j = 1/9 {
gen v1_`j'= substr(v1, `j', 1)
}
Nick
[email protected]
John Bunge
I have a string variable v1. It contains names, e.g. "James" or "Valentine". I want to decompose v1 into string variables v2, v3, v4, ... that each contains one letter of v1.
The result:
*-----------begin example------------
v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 v8 v9 v10
James J a m e s
Valentine V a l e n t i n e
*-----------end example------------
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