Jason
see -help strfun- (help for string functions) and check out -index()-
This will return the position in the string of the first character of the
sought keyword or else 0 if the keyword does not exist within the
string. To turn this into a 0/1 dummy, you might
gen byte kw_found = index(stringvar, "keyword") > 0
where kw_found is the new 0/1 dummy variable and stringvar is the name of
the string variable in which you seek the occurrence of "keyword".
Phil
At 10:37 AM 10/02/2004 +1100, you wrote:
Dear all,
I too am relatively new at STATA, trying to find my way around the
differences in the syntax language from SPSS.
Anyway, I was wondering if there was a way in STATA syntax to search a
string variable for keywords and create an indicator variable (dummy)
where 1=keyword found and 0=keyword not found?
Thanks in advance,
Jason Payne
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