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Re: st: Dropping string observations that have a sequence of characters
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Tim Wade <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Dropping string observations that have a sequence of characters
Date
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:12:35 -0400
drop if strmatch(yourvarname, "*ur*")==1
Tim
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:35 PM, George Chioran
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I have a basic question, but which I still have not been able to solve. How can you delete observations from a variable that contains strings that have the letters "ur" for instance.
>
> For example if the variable has the observations: "venus" "mercury" "mars" "Jupiter" "saturn" "uranus" "Neptune". The how could I delete the observations that contain the letters "ur", in this case "saturn" and "uranus" ?
>
> Thank you for your help,
> George
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