> apologies if this has been posted before and I missed it. I have a
> string variable which is the name of companies (fictitious example
> follows):
>
> XYZ, International
> ABCDE, National
> DFTRER, Exports
>
> etc
>
> I want to keep only the first part of the company name (e.g. keep XYZ
> ABCDE DFTRER, etc). The obvious solution is to ask Stata to read the
> letters and chop off anything from the character "," onwards, but am
> not very sure which command to use in Stata 8.2 to be able to do
> that.
>
An almost identical problem cropped up on the list last week initiated by Heather Gold.
The various response should provide you with a solution, see...
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-06/msg00163.html
Regards
Neil
Neil Shephard
Genetics Statistician
ARC Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester
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Ernest Rutherford
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