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There are probably many ways of doing this, but here is way using Nick
Cox's -egenmore- (SSC, Nick Winter is attributed as the author of the
-noccur()- function used here) package:
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clear*
set obs 100
g crosses = " "
local cross "x"
forv i=1/ 100 {
qui: replace crosses="`cross'" in `i'
local cross "`cross'x"
}
// ssc install egemore, replace
egen noccur = noccur(crosses), string("x")
su noccur
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Susan Olivia<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Stata lister,
>
> I have a variable (say number of days) and is a string
> variable. This variable is represented by XXXX (basically
> the number of X denotes the number of days).
>
> I would like to create a numeric value for this variable
> (i.e. 4 crosses = 4) . Is there a way I can easily do this
> in Stata? I tried the 'encode' and 'destring' commands, but
> these commands didn't do what I after.
>
> Thanks in advance for the tips,
>
> Susan
>
>
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