st: Re: breaking strings

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

help split

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terra Curtis" <terra.curtis@cambridgefinance.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:08 PM
Subject: st: breaking strings



> Dear Statalist,
>
> I am trying to find a string function (or equivalent series of code lines)
> to accomplish the following.  I have a string variable which contains
> various company names, eli lilly & co, for example.  I want to break this
> string into 4 separate data points, namely eli, lilly, &, co.  The 
> delimeter
> is a space.  Anyone know how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Terra
>
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