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Re: st: Dropping string observations that have a sequence of characters
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"Dr. Bill Westman" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Dropping string observations that have a sequence of characters
Date
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:02:28 -0700 (PDT)
assuming that var1 is type string with those planets, will this work?
g var2 = subinstr( var1,"ur","",.)
--- On Tue, 4/27/10, George Chioran <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: George Chioran <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: Dropping string observations that have a sequence of characters
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 5:35 PM
>
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I have a basic question, but which I still have not been
> able to solve. How can you delete observations from a
> variable that contains strings that have the letters "ur"
> for instance.
>
> For example if the variable has the observations: "venus"
> "mercury" "mars" "Jupiter" "saturn" "uranus" "Neptune". The
> how could I delete the observations that contain the letters
> "ur", in this case "saturn" and "uranus" ?
>
> Thank you for your help,
> George
>
>
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