I don't understand how you fit 500 characters in a variable.
-split- doesn't deal with this case.
I once tried to automate this, but no automation I could think of made
it easier
than doing it from first principles.
gen length = length(yourvar)
su length, meanonly
forval i = 1/`r(max)' {
gen my`i' = substr(yourvar, `i', 1)
}
Note that in some problems, you may need to -trim()- blanks that are not
interesting or useful. Also, you may know the maximum in advance so that
you don't need to calculate lengths. If you knew that there were 8
characters at most you could
forval i = 1/8 {
gen my`i' = substr(yourvar, `i', 1)
}
Nick
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Andri Rauch
I should create single characters from very long strings (ie around 500
characters).
My original variable abcdefg... should be transformed to:
variable_1: a, variable_2: b, variable_3: c, variable_4: d and so on...
I assume it should be done by combining the substring and foreach
command.
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