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st: Using regex to identify strings with capital letters
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"Beecroft, Erik (VDSS)" <[email protected]>
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st: Using regex to identify strings with capital letters
Date
Wed, 26 May 2010 14:03:23 -0400
I need to extract certain observations from a series of text files.
Each file contains only one variable, which is string. The
observations I want all begin with two capital letters. (They are state
abbreviations, such as VA or AK). The other observations do not begin
with two capital letters.
Is there a way to tell Stata to keep only observations for which the
variable begins with two capital letters?
It seems like the regex function might work, but I have never worked
with regular expression syntax before.
For example, a portion of a text file might look like:
text1
text2
VA department of Social Services
text4
text5
I want to keep only the third observation above.
I am using Stata for Windows 10.1.
Erik
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