Dear Nick,
thank you for your help.
My another doubt is the length of variable v2 changes among observations.
How to decide the first number in the -substr-?
If the length for certain observations is 2, substr(v2,4,1) will cause missing value.
Thank you for any help.
Best regards
Rose.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: st: RE: problems on the string functions
Date: 2009-11-20 07:48:18
gen v3 = v1
qui forval i = 1/10 {
replace v3 = subinstr(v3, substr(v2, `i', 1), "", 1)
}
Nick
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Thank you very much, Baum and Nick.
I understood the use of -subinstr-, -word- and -strpos- with your help.
Another problem is how to deal with it if the strings excluded from
another string variable is not consecutive.
for example,
clear
input str10 (v1 v2)
ab123d 12d
efg34 f4
end
I want to get v3 as followings
v3
ab3
eg3
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