Thanks for all the publicity.
As a footnote, observe that if the issue is counting "X" in values of
-kisses- such as "XX", "XXXXX", etc. then
gen nkisses = length(kisses)
will be a more direct and efficient solution so long as no other
characters are observed. -length(trim(kisses))- will protect against
accidental leading and trailing spaces.
Nick
[email protected]
Susan Olivia
Thanks Tirthankar,
Using Nick Cox's command is way more efficient. My earlier
attempts were very inefficient.
Tirthankar Chakravarty
> 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:
> 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
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Susan
Olivia<[email protected]>
> > 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.
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