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st: AW: Dropping string observations that have a sequence of characters


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: AW: Dropping string observations that have a sequence of characters
Date   Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:19:02 +0200

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*************
clear*

input str7 myvar
"venus"
"mercury"
"Jupiter"
"mars"
"saturn"
"uranus"
"Neptune"
end

list, noo

drop if strpos(myvar , "ur")!=0

list, noo
*************



HTH
Martin


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von George Chioran
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 00:36
An: [email protected]
Betreff: st: Dropping string observations that have a sequence of characters


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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