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The function, subinstr(), (or regular expression functions) will do it.
E.g., gen newvar = subinstr(oldvar,"dis","reg",.).
..Frank
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of TEWODAJ
MOGUES
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:47 PM
To: Stata _
Subject: st: Replace a substring
Hi,
I am hoping that this is quick and simple to answer. I want to replace
all occurrences of a substring in some string variable with another
substring. E.g. I want to replace "dis" with "reg" so that the old
variable has the values:
oldvar
dis14
batidis
leg_diszone
cont
and the new variable is
newvar
reg14
batireg
leg_regzone
cont
Using Nick's egenmore, this can be done for whole words using -msub-,
but how can this be done when the string to be replaced is not a whole
word?
Thanks,
tewodaj
~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~
Tewodaj Mogues
Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin - Madison
427 Lorch St. #317, Taylor Hall
Madison, WI 53706
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