Dear users,
I have a dataset that contains several string variables. Suppose one string variable contains the following values in one of the observations:
CMLST(HMV)
Another string variable contains :
COMSTL GTRI(HMV)
I want stata to create a new variable that retrieves only the three-letter word "HMV" from the string variable. I understand that the substr command does that but because the starting point of the word HMV is not the same for every variable , it would be difficult to identify the correct starting position to read the string and retrieve the first three letters HMV.
Can somebody help please? I have tried the other string commands but could not understand one that does what I want.
Many thanks
Dev
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