For a string variable, -length(variable)- is equivalent to
-length(variable[1])-. That may or may not be a correct answer.
Also `j' is the same as `i' here.
Nick
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Margaret R Grove
Andri,
Perhaps something like this ....
local len=length(variable)
local j=0
forval i=1/`len' {
local j=`j'+1
gen str1 var`j'=substr(variable,`i',1)
}
Meg
Andri Rauch wrote:
> Dear all,
> 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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