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Re: st: Remove the middle part of a string variable
From
Phil Clayton <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Remove the middle part of a string variable
Date
Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:27:24 +1100
Here's one solution using regular expressions:
replace myvar=regexs(1) + regexs(2) if regexm(myvar, "(.*)\..*([A-Z])")
Phil
On 6 Jan 2014, at 11:13 am, manon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stata/IC 12.0 for Mac (64-bit Intel)
> Revision 24 Aug 2011
>
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to remove the middle part of a string variable.
>
> I have a variable of the form:
> 123.01A
> 124
> 135.02
> 12.00B
> 13.23K
>
> I want to remove the numbers between the "." and the letters.
> In this example, I would want to get:
> 123A
> 124
> 135.02
> 12B
> 13K
>
> Could you please help me?
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Manon
>
>
>
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