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Subject st: Handling string data
Date Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:12:28 -0400
Mingfeng wrote:
I have tried to solve this myself with the reference, but no luck so
far. My problem is to run a function on a string variable. This is
the data that I have
Variable X:
x1,x2,x3
x1,x3
x2
x1,x3,x4,x5
x5,x6
I was tring to generate a dummy variable y=1 when x3 is contained in X
and 0 otherwise. Is there a command to do this?
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help string function
will tell about string functions. You need strpos() (In Stata 8 the name
is index()). So you can:
gen y= strpos(X,"x3")>0
Hope this helps
Svend
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