Thanks Martin and Nick, -split- rocks. And yes I did enjoy passing it on.
Keith
Nick Cox wrote:
Use -split- with punctuation _ and -.
-split- was added in Stata 8.
I am sure that you will enjoy telling your colleague.
Nick
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Keith Dear
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.)
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