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| From | Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: st: Creating new variable which includes the first 6 symbols of a 9 symbol string variable |
| Date | Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:23:39 +0000 |
To spell it out gen newvar = substr(strvar, 1, 6) Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Neil Shephard See -man substr()- Dassen, Sander > I need to create a new variable which includes the first 6 symbols of a 9 symbol string variable. > > For example: > > Y7542C106 > > should be returned as: > > Y7542C * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/