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| From | Cody Cook <cookcfc@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: Dropping parts of strings (i.e. Baldwin County becomes Baldwin) |
| Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:02:16 -0600 |
Hi Stata Helpers, I have a ton of census data that I’m trying to merge with some other data. The other data only has county names, not FIPS. For the census data, it is formatted as __name___ + ___ census type ___ where census type is either “County”, “Borough”, “Census Area” and maybe a few more. This is all in one string. I want to only keep the part that identifies the specific county. Basically, is there a way to say "if county includes “XXXX” replace without “XXXX”” Best, Cody * * 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/