Re: st: AW: Using regex to identify strings with capital letters

[Steve Samuels <sjsamuels@gmail.com>]

Steve

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Martin Weiss <martin.weiss1@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> <>
>
> " These
> records I don't want, but easily dropped by modifying Martin's
> suggestion:
>        drop if regexm(substr(var1,1,2) , "^([P][O])")"
>
>
>
>
> You can probably safely omit the -substr()- part here as the "^" sign
> indicates that the "P" character must be positioned at the beginning of the
> string. See http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/regex.html
>
>
>
> *************
> clear*
>
> input str5 myvar
>  "POwll"
>  "POert"
>  "SEtrt"
>  "WEret"
> end
>
> preserve
>  drop if regexm(substr(myvar,1,2) , "^([P][O])")
>  l, noo
> restore
>
> drop if regexm(myvar , "^([P][O])")
> list, noo
>
> *************
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Beecroft, Erik
> (VDSS)
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010 14:26
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: st: Using regex to identify strings with capital letters
>
> Thank you to Martin and Nick for solving my problem, Martin with the
> regexm function and Nick with inrange.
>
> Both of these work with my data:
>        keep if regexm(substr(var1,1,2) , "^([A-Z][A-Z])")
>        keep if inrange(substr(var1,1,1), "A", "Z") &
> inrange(substr(var1,2,1), "A","Z")
>
> Both also keep records that begin with "PO" for Post Office box.  These
> records I don't want, but easily dropped by modifying Martin's
> suggestion:
>        drop if regexm(substr(var1,1,2) , "^([P][O])")
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Erik
>
>
> Martin is correct that -inrange("Er", "AA", "ZZ")- is true. Possibly
> this is Erik's specific problem, namely that having the first capital
> letter in "A" ... "Z" is necessary but not sufficient.
>
> I offer as a stronger criterion
>
> inrange(substr(myvar,1,1), "A", "Z") & inrange(substr(myvar,2,1), "A",
> "Z")
>
> I continue to like regex solutions when they are the simplest available!
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
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