Re: st: replace part of observations in a string variable

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Dear Nick,

Your solution works like charm !!! Thanks very much.And thanks to Muhammad too.

Regards.

<redacted>



On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's nice of Muhammad to quote a posting of mine, but he doesn't spell
> out how it answers the question here.
>
> First off, <redacted> writes of a variable -new2- but applies code to a
> variable -addnew2-, so that confusion may be the answer.
>
> Second, <redacted> is testing for _exact_ equality and if that fails one
> possibility is that there are leading and trailing spaces so that
>
> replace addnew2=" " if trim(addnew2) == "Pasir Mas"
>
> or
>
> replace addnew2=" " if strpos(addnew2, "Pasir Mas")
>
> would be work-arounds in that case.
>
> Either way, a broad strategic answer is "find out about string
> functions", which was I suspect Muhammad's implicit point.
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Muhammad Anees <anees@aneconomist.com> wrote:
>
>> This can be for you.
>>
>> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-06/msg00393.html
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:02 PM, <redacted> wrote:
>
>>> I want to replace part of observations in the string variable to
>>> missing values. For example, I want to replace "Pasir Mas" to either
>>> "." or " " from a string variable named as "new2"
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------
>>> new2
>>> ------------------------------------
>>> Tumpat
>>> Tumpat
>>> Kota Bharu
>>> Kota Bharu
>>> Pasir Mas
>>> Kota Bharu
>>> Kota Bharu
>>> --------------------------------------
>>>
>>> what I did was:
>>>
>>> . replace addnew2=" " if addnew2 == "Pasir Mas"
>>> (0 real changes made)
>>>
>>> Observation "Pasir Mas" was not replaced by " " . What have I done
>>> wrong? What is the better way of working with string variable?
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