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RE: st: RE: RE: AW: Search for string values in dataset??
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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RE: st: RE: RE: AW: Search for string values in dataset??
Date
Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:33:27 +0000
Note that there is no need to clone the variable. You just ask Stata to tell you what the result would be if you did.
... if index(lower(var1), "gmbh")
... if strpos(lower(var1), "gmbh")
Nick
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Eric Booth
One way to match insensitive to case would be to create a lowercase (and (optionally) temporary) version of the string variable and match on that, so:
*********************!
clear
inp str10(var1)
"GmbH7UuIZ"
"GMbH7UuIZ"
"gmbh7Uuiz"
end
tempvar var1_lower
g `var1_lower' = lower(var1)
g str10 five = var1 if index(`var1_lower', "gmbh")
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