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st: RE: Variable Creation
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"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Variable Creation
Date
Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:36:20 +0100
gen site = substr(sitecode,3,3)
Put real() around the RHS if you want the number.
help functions
Nick
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I have a partial listing of the following variable, formatted as str9:
sitecode
--------
37087M022
37087M022
37173M035
37173M035
370810009
370810009
370810009
370810009
370810009
370810009
370810009
370870035
370870035
370870035
370870035
370870035
I would like to create an additional variable, site, as follows: site = xxx if sitecode = 37xxxyyyy. Site is the 3rd, 4th, and 5th characters of sitecode. I don't know how to do this, and what's more frustrating, I don't even know what to input in order to use help.
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