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From | "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | st: RE: AW: SV: AW: range of a stringvariable |
Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:14:43 +0100 |
Absolutely correct. In writing -split- I thought about extending it to splitting string variables that are not separated somehow. But it would have complicated the syntax and explanation mightily, and already users could get directly what they want by applying -substr()-. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Martin Weiss " Out of curiosity what happens with the A in 543A in the statement below? split remainder, parse(A)" The -parse()- character is zapped, unfortunately. That is usually what -split- users want. Of course you can always separate the string with -substr()-, as shown earlier. Tomas Lind Thanks Martin for your kind help. Out of curiosity what happens with the A in 543A in the statement below? split remainder, parse(A) I thought that the statement above meant that I should get 2 variables ICD-10, with and without the A. However I just get one new variable, remainder1 (which is the ICD-10 numbers without the trailing A, enough for the code to work). * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/