Devra Golbe
> >
> > the following code fragment suggests that egen ends does
> > not operate as
> > the documentation (pasted at the bottom of my message)
> > suggests. Specifically, with the tail option, if no
> punct(pchars)
> > appears, the tail should be empty. However, my output
> > suggests that under
> > these circumstances (no appearance of pchars) the tail
> > contains the entire
> > "word".
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your insights.
> >
> > Devra
A quite separate comment on this.
The substantive problem Devra is tackling
looks more like one for
-split- (Stata 8)
-split- from SSC (Stata 7)
-strparse- from SSC (Stata 6)
It may also be a "multiple response" problem
in the sense of the FAQ mentioned earlier today.
Nick
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