Otherwise put, I don't think -abbrev()- is a good function for your
problem. -abbrev()- is really intended to work with variable names, not
their contents.
replace myvar = "acquired" if strpos(myvar, "acquired")
may help.
Nick
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Martin Weiss
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clear*
input str20 mystring
"acquired by alcatel"
"acquired by cisco"
end
g newstring=word( mystring,1)
l
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Sara Brighi
I have come across a problem. I have a string variable made up of 2338
observations. These observations differ in "private", "public",
"defunct" and "acquired...."; but the "acquired" observations ever
specify sth more (for instance "acquired by alcatel", or "acquired by
cysco"..ecc). I need to use abbrev() in order to have only "acquired".
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