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From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | Re: st: Regular expressions |
Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:49:48 +0000 |
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 > * > * 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/