Thanks for answering my posting and both the commands are working correctly.
RAJA
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
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> --- On Thu, 10/9/09, Rajaram Subramanian Potty wrote:
>> I have a variable which is multiple response and is a
>> string variable and is in character. Now, I want to know how
>> may respondents was given different characters. The
>> following is the example of the variable with 5
>> observations
>> Var1
>> 1. ABCDE
>> 2. BFGH
>> 3. ABIJK
>> 4. BDJK
>> 5. BC
>> Now, I want to know how many are answered A, or B or C
>> or D or E etc.
>
> *------------- begin example --------------
> clear
> input str5 y
> ABCDE
> BFGH
> ABIJK
> BDJK
> BC
> end
>
> gen a = strpos(y,"A") > 0
> gen b = strpos(y,"B") > 0
> gen c = strpos(y,"C") > 0
> gen d = strpos(y,"D") > 0
> gen e = strpos(y,"E") > 0
> gen f = strpos(y,"F") > 0
> gen g = strpos(y,"G") > 0
> gen h = strpos(y,"H") > 0
> gen i = strpos(y,"I") > 0
> gen j = strpos(y,"J") > 0
> gen k = strpos(y,"K") > 0
>
> list
> total a-k
> *------------- end example --------------
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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