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Re: st: Parsing words on allcaps
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Parsing words on allcaps
Date
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:38:01 +0000
-moss- (SSC) should help.
Nick
On 17 Mar 2012, at 09:53, Matthew Kerby <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Statalist
Perhaps somebody can advise on how to solve this problem.
I have a dataset which consists of a single string variable. The
each observation consists of a sentence which in turn contains a
name in all caps. I would like to create a new variable which
contains only those words which appear in all caps. eg. in example
below I would like to extract the name of the hockey player.
clear
input str244 string
"GRETZKY W. likes hamburgers"
"Hotdogs are preferred by LEMIEUX M."
"All things being equal, CROSBY S. will eat doughnuts"
end
I would like to end up with a string variable (player) which looks
like the following:
player
"GRETZKY W."
"LEMIEUX M."
"CROSBY S."
Any help on how to parse a string variable on allcaps is greatly
appreciated.
Cheers,
M
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