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st: Splitting the contents of a cell with enter key as the delimiter
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Dev Vencappa <[email protected]>
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st: Splitting the contents of a cell with enter key as the delimiter
Date
Tue, 3 Dec 2013 16:46:02 +0000
Dear Stata users,
I am trying to split the contents of a string variable which reads as one long name as below when viewing it in the data editor:
Banc of America Securities LLCJP Morgan & Co IncMorgan Stanley
But upon closer inspection, this is actually stored with the enter key as a delimiter in the cell as below:
Banc of America Securities LLC
JP Morgan & Co Inc
Morgan Stanley
I am trying to use the command split to retrieve and save each of these three business names into three different columns. However, I am not sure how to code split to specify thatthe parser should be the enter key. Can someone please kindly offer a solution to this please? My string variable has thousands such cases where sometimes there are up to 15 different names in the content of a cell delimited using the enter key.
Thanks in advance and regards,
Dev
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