Hi Erica
Maybe you can use the "subinstr" function as this:
You have a string variable "var1"
var1
1. 11-11-01
2. 11-11-02
3. 11-11-03
4. 11-11-04
5. 11-11-05
You can generate a new variable "var2" where the text "-" is replaced by
"" (this is a no space). The "." after the last comma means that all the
"-" will be replaced:
.gen str12 var2=subinstr(var1,"-","",.)
The result is:
var1 var2
1. 11-11-01 111101
2. 11-11-02 111102
3. 11-11-03 111103
4. 11-11-04 111104
5. 11-11-05 111105
I hope this help... Good luck!
C�sar
Ministry of Agriculture of Peru
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I have a variable where the identifier is listed as follows
111-11-11-111
I want to remove the dashes so the variable will just be a string of
numbers.
If anybody has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
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