> I'm currently looking for some help generating a new variable that is a
> count of the number of commas in string variable in my data set.
>
> Conor
You can combine -length( )- and -subinstr( )- functions.
gen comma = length(trim(var1))-length(trim(subinstr(var1,",","",.)))
where var1 is the variable of interest.
Roy
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