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st: Substr not working anymore in Stata 10


From   Diego Canales <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Substr not working anymore in Stata 10
Date   Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:25:36 -0700

Hi everyone,

I was just recently looking at the thread "Splitting string variables without parse strings" and the command that works for this task, which is the same problem I have, substr, doesn't seem to be working anymore for Stata 10. If I type help substr, an explanation still appears, but when I run the following:

gen hrs_inicio= substr (chorainici, 1,2)

Stata gives me a: substr not found.

chorainici is a 4 digit string variable, such as 1416, and I need the first two digits in a new variable.

Thanks,
Diego
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Diego Canales
Master of City Planning | MCP'11
University of California at Berkeley

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