st: Re: Can you search within a dataset for a particular character?

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

The strpos() function returns the position of a substring in any string.

gen hashyphen=(strpos(mystringvar,"-")>0)

will be equal to 1 for any observation with a hyphen in mystringvar.

Michael Blasnik

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> I have a dataset of names stored as string variables.  Is there any way to 
> search the dataset for all data containing a particular character, a hyphen 
> for example?  Also, is there any way to search the same dataset for all 
> names containing a space (as in last names with a space between them ex. 
> von cannon)?  Thank you!
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