Dear all,
I'm trying to take some strings out of a string variable. Suppose data
set Y contains the list of strings, named variable YY, that I want to
take out from a string variable XX in data set X. An example is that
YY takes value "a" and "b", and XX takes "ac" and "bd", the results I
want are "c" and "d".
My code is as following:
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use Y,clear
levelsof YY
use X,clear
foreach l of local levels {
replace XX=subinstr(XX,"`l'","",.)
}
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It doesn't work. Could someone tell me what is wrong with my code? Or
is there better method achieving this? Many thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Luhang
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