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Re: st: Parsing words on allcaps
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Matthew Kerby <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Parsing words on allcaps
Date
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:58:12 -0230
Thanks! Worked.
On 2012-03-17, at 8:08 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> -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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