Re: st: Analysis of text

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

The user-written (I'm one of the authors) -strparse- has been superceded by 
the official -split-.  Also, the -file- command won't limit the input to 255 
characters.

M Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Partha Bhattacharyya" <parthabhattacharyya@gmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: st: Analysis of text



> Dear Taavi,
>
> you can using teh string parse option, which is "strparse" and you can
> parse by each questions, like "M1" and so forth. Once you set the loop
> with strring parse you do not need to re-write the code for each
> questions.   But I think STATA limits text length to 255 characters.
> but I might be wrong on the number of characters.
>
> You might need to install strparse, the command is "ssc install strparse"
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