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st: RE: Dropping parts of strings (i.e. Baldwin County becomes Baldwin)


From   Andrew Maurer <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Dropping parts of strings (i.e. Baldwin County becomes Baldwin)
Date   Thu, 6 Mar 2014 17:13:00 +0000

Maybe not the most efficient way, but this works (replaces internal underscores with spaces):

local name __united_kingdom__+___county
di trim(subinstr(substr(`"`name'"',1,strpos(`"`name'"',"+")-1),"_"," ",.))

or for if your variable is named "oldname":
gen newname = trim(subinstr(substr(oldname,1,strpos(oldname,"+")-1),"_"," ",.))

(if you want internal underscores then gen newname2 = subinstr(newname," ","_",.)

Andrew Maurer 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cody Cook
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 11:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Dropping parts of strings (i.e. Baldwin County becomes Baldwin)

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
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