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st: RE: RE: Extracting names from string

From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Extracting names from string
Date   Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:52:12 -0000 
Correcting a typo 

Nick 
[email protected] 

> gen str1 doctor = "" 
> split staff, parse(,) 
> replace doctor = staff1 if index(staff1, "DR ") 
> replace doctor = staff2 if index(staff2, "DR ") 
> replace doctor = staff1 if index(staff1, "DT ") 
> replace doctor = staff2 if index(staff2, "DT ") 
> replace doctor = staff1 if index(staff2, "NURSE") 
> replace doctor = staff2 if index(staff1, "NURSE") 
> replace doctor = staff1 if trim(staff2) == ""

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