There is a function reverse(s), so you can do something using
index(reverse(name)," ") combined with length(name).
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rajesh
Tharyan
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 12:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: string manipulation
Hi all,
I have a list of names in the following format
A K Nath
B G G goldfinger
G gomes
R raja micheal
Lothar
I need to get them in the following format
Nath A K
Goldfinger B G G
Gomes G
Micheal R raja
Lothar
if they were all of the same length I could use the substr function to
do
this without any problem. With different lengths and different number of
forenames I am not sure
But, This is what I have been thinking
1. If there is way to find out the position of the last space then I
could
use that info to split the names into forenames and surname
2. then concat them in the way I require
3. Since the number of forenames
Am I right? How do I get the position of the last space. I know Index
will
give me the location of the first instance of a character is there
something
similar location of the last instance? Or to start looking from the
back?
I am using Stata 8.2
Thanks
rajesh
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