Thanks Margret and Nick,
Your solutions work. Sorry Nick, it's not quite 500 characters. Actually its sequence data that I want to analyse position by position.
Thanks Andri
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Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Margaret R Grove
Gesendet: 26 March 2008 13:37
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: st: Creating single characters from long strings
Ah yes - early morning fog here! No `j' needed. Nick - I'm not sure what you mean about the length(variable) note. I tried running that little program and it did what I wanted.
thanks,
Meg
Nick Cox wrote:
> 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
> [email protected]
>
> 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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