Quite so.
This raises an interesting question of
how to check (British or indeed any other)
postcodes. Given various possibilities it
would not be trivial, but I believe Stata provides
all the rudimentary handles.
Nick [home postcode DH1 2NJ]
[email protected]
David Harrison
> Now the discussion has moved onto upper/lower case letters, I
> feel I should point out that my suggestion below strips off
> anything that is not a digit between 0 and 9 - this may or
> may not be beneficial depending on the situation, but in the
> case of valid postcodes it should be irrelevant!
David Harrison
> . gen newv=cond(real(substr(v,-1,1))==., substr(v,1,length(v)-1), v)
>
> . li
>
> +-------------+
> | v newv |
> |-------------|
> 1. | EC4A EC4 |
> 2. | EC4P EC4 |
> 3. | EC4Y EC4 |
> 4. | DA15 DA15 |
> 5. | SE10 SE10 |
> |-------------|
> 6. | SE2 SE2 |
> 7. | SE3 SE3 |
> 8. | W1A W1 |
> +-------------+
>
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