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| From | Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: st: wildcard in numeric variable |
| Date | Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:41:18 +0100 |
"a*" in this context is not a wildcard. It is a literal string. You need -regexm()- or -strmatch()- for the wildcard interpretation. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk tashi lama I have an example that fails to replace string var using wildcard in expression. I tried this and it fails... Any idea? var1 is string. var1 abc ab d e replace var1="" if var1=="a*" 0 obs replaced. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/