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st: replacing asterisks in a string
From
"Lim, Raymond" <[email protected]>
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st: replacing asterisks in a string
Date
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:30:17 -0400
Hello Statalisters,
How does one flag a string containing an asterisk, which in Stata is a wildcard? I want to flag the observations with an asterisk and then delete the asterisk. This is what I would do to flag/delete a parenthesis.
replace flag_parenthesis=1 if strmatch(varname, "*)")
replace varname=subinstr(varname,")","",.)
Thanks!
-Raymond
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