st: [Fwd: Fwd: string variable problem]

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

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> From: Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>
> Date: June 19, 2007 1:55:36 PM EDT
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: re: string variable problem
>
>
> With Eric's data,
>
> Albania2002
> Albania2005
> Serbia&Montenegro2002
> Serbia&Montenegro2005
>
>
> g country=substr(var1,1,length(var1)-4)
> g year=substr(var1,length(var1)-3,.)
>
>
> You could also use Macro Extended Functions to "subtract" the year  
> from the string.
>
>
> Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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