Re: st: Split string variable

[daniel klein <klein.daniel.81@googlemail.com>]

Your -foreach- loop will not work for various reasons, but I will not
comment on that. You are looking for

g foo = substr(ccodealp_year, 1, 3)

Best
Daniel

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Dear Statalisters,
I have the following problem that probably needs some intelligent
application of -substr- and/or -trim- , but that I have not been able
to achieve so far. I have a string variable (name "ccodealp_year")
that takes the following observations:
AFG46
AFG47
...
...
VDR09
VDR10

Each observation is a three-digit country code followed by two-digit
year. I need to create a variable consisting of just the three-digit
country codes, i.e. need to remove the two-digit years from each
observation of the string variable. I have also tried something like:
foreach w of varlist ccodealp_year { gen `ccodealp' =
"`ccodealp_year'-`year'" }, obviously without success. I was wondering
if anyone can point me to the right direction. Any help is greatly
appreciated.

Best regards.
Suryadipta.
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