Re: st: Regular expressions

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Your second problem sounds like for -split-. I wouldn't reach for
regular expressions there.
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 7 March 2014 11:40, Estrella Gomez <estrellastata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to do two modifications to two string variables using
> regular expression:
>
> 1) I have a list of movie titles with a year included; for instance:
> "Robin Hood (2010)". I would like to drop the years and the
> parenthesis, so the final value should be "Robin Hood". The number of
> words in the title varies a lot across movies
>
> 2) I have a variable indicating where the movie was produced. In some
> cases there are several countries, for instance "UK, Germany, Canada,
> Switzerland". I would like to generate one variable per country (1st
> variable take value UK, 2nd Germany and so on). Again, the number of
> countries per movie is not fixed; it varies from 1 to 4
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Estrella
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