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st: RE: Using regex to identify strings with capital letters
From
"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: RE: Using regex to identify strings with capital letters
Date
Thu, 27 May 2010 14:12:43 +0100
I thought PO was the state that contained Podunk State University.
Nick
[email protected]
Beecroft, Erik (VDSS)
Thank you to Martin and Nick for solving my problem, Martin with the
regexm function and Nick with inrange.
Both of these work with my data:
keep if regexm(substr(var1,1,2) , "^([A-Z][A-Z])")
keep if inrange(substr(var1,1,1), "A", "Z") &
inrange(substr(var1,2,1), "A","Z")
Both also keep records that begin with "PO" for Post Office box. These
records I don't want, but easily dropped by modifying Martin's
suggestion:
drop if regexm(substr(var1,1,2) , "^([P][O])")
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