Hallo,
you should be able to make it trough " gen ...=substr(...)".
Gianluca
Quoting Ben Carpenter <[email protected]>:
Dear statalisters,
I have got a problem splitting one string variable into four new
stringvariables each containing a part i.e. 1digit
of the former 4digit string variable.
My strings look like "103A" or "009X" (without the "") i.e. I have
got 4 digit codes which contain numbers and
letters.
I want to generate four new variables each consisting of one digit
of the former 4digit-string variable.
An Example:
sitc(variable name of the 4digit string var):
103A
09XX
After the split the data should look like:
sitc_1st_digit sitc_2nd_digit sitc_3rd_digit sitc_4th_digit
1 0 3 A
0 9 X X
As far as I know, the split command needs characters as
parse_strings to know when to "cut" the string. But I don
´t have any parse strings within my 4digit string variable. How can
I cope with that? Is there another command(or
combination of commands) apart from "split" which can deal with the problem?
I would very much appreciate help with this tricky problem.
Thank you very much for your help,
Ben C.
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