Re: st: RE: Re: breaking strings

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

 replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,",","")
 replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,".","")

Then use -split-.

--NIck Winter

At 11:16 AM 9/29/2005, you wrote:
> Thanks, split seems to do the job.  However now I have some special cases to
> deal with.  Say I have a company name like:
> Medical Research, Inc.
>
> I want to split this into
> Medical
> Research
> Inc
> So that the "," and the "." are dropped.  I've tried combining -split- with
> the -ignore- option, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything as the comma
> and period remain in the split variables.  Anyone know how to take care of
> this?
>
> Thanks,
> Terra
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