Nick,
Thanks for the tip. I was just about to use Dev's suggestion and was
realizing how lengthy that could have become. There was one change I made
to your code, and I thought I should note it for the record here:
You wrote:
replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,",","")
replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,".","")
But this produced a syntax error.
It should be:
replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,",","", .)
replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,".","", .)
Where the "." at the end informs stata to replace ALL ocurrences of either
"," or "." within the string myvar. See
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?string+functions
Otherwise, it seems to work perfectly. Thanks again.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Winter
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:37 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: Re: breaking strings
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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