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From | Steven Nakoneshny <scnakone@ucalgary.ca> |
To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | Re: st: Extracting part of string var |
Date | Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:59:26 -0700 |
Try the -subinstr- function. g newvar = subinstr(var,”.”,””,.) Steve On Dec 10, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Rohit Sonika <rsnet@sonika.me> wrote: > Hi Statalist, > > I am trying to extract part of string variable that looks something like this: > > var > ..1…….2….3 > 1..3………..2 > ……..2..1..1. > > The occurrence of 1, 2 and 3 are randomly placed and no predefined order. I am trying to obtain just the numeric part of the variable so that I am able to retain the order of numbers: 123, 132 and 211 in the example above. Hence, I am only trying to remove the dots (.) from the string variable. > > I am running Stata 13 on Mac 10.9. > > Thanks for your help. > > Rohit > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/