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st: cleaning string variables
From
Elizabeth Sanders <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: cleaning string variables
Date
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:42:27 -0700 (PDT)
I have a string variable of the form
ABC
DEF/ABC
DEF
DEF/ABC/ABC
etc.,
and want to create a new variable that is 1 if the value includes at least /ABC/ABC
I expect I will be searching for */ABC/ABC*, so I tried
gen newvar=oldvar
newvar if regexm(newvar, "*/ABC/ABC*")
but got an error "=exp required".
What am I missing?
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