<>
-subinstr- does need a fourth argument, though. It could be a missing ".",
but without it, the code won`t work...
HTH
Martin
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. November 2009 21:35
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Betreff: st: RE: text to columns
Here is one idea:
gen newvar=subinstr(varold,"_"," ")
replace newvar=subinstr(newvar,"-"," ")
foreach i of numlist 1/4 {
gen var`i'=word(newvar,`i')
}
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Dear (home)
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: text to columns
Is there a utility to turn a string variable with values like
"rs1805005_chr16_88513145-88513"
into four variables (or whatever it takes) rs1805005, chr16, 88513145,
88513 ?
A colleague tells me "Excel is easy using Text to columns and following
the prompts, but it irritates me not to be able to do it in Stata!"
(btw I consider it a minor personal victory that the people I work with,
some of them, sometimes, no longer write STATA.)
kd
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