RE: AW: st: AW: Using regex to identify strings with capital letters

[Grace Jessie <gracejessie@hotmail.com>]

Martin,
thank you very much.
Due to the slow speed of network, I did not open the website successfully previously.
Now it is OK.
 
Regards,
Grace

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> From: martin.weiss1@gmx.de
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: AW: st: AW: Using regex to identify strings with capital letters
> Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 17:54:10 +0200
>
>
> <>
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> " Could you please tell where to look up the use of sign in -regex-, such as
> "^","$"?"
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>
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> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/regex.html
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> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Grace Jessie
> Gesendet: Samstag, 29. Mai 2010 17:32
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: RE: st: AW: Using regex to identify strings with capital letters
>
> Martin,
> "the "^" sign indicates that the "P" character must be positioned at the
> beginning of the string"
> Could you please tell where to look up the use of sign in -regex-, such as
> "^","$"?
> Thank you very much!
>
> Regards,
> Grace
>
>
>> From: martin.weiss1@gmx.de
>> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>> Subject: st: AW: Using regex to identify strings with capital letters
>> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:37:21 +0200
>>
>>
>> <>
>>
>> " These
>> records I don't want, but easily dropped by modifying Martin's
>> suggestion:
>> drop if regexm(substr(var1,1,2) , "^([P][O])")"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> You can probably safely omit the -substr()- part here as the "^" sign
>> indicates that the "P" character must be positioned at the beginning of
> the
>> string. See http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/regex.html
>>
>>
>>
>> *************
>> clear*
>>
>> input str5 myvar
>> "POwll"
>> "POert"
>> "SEtrt"
>> "WEret"
>> end
>>
>> preserve
>> drop if regexm(substr(myvar,1,2) , "^([P][O])")
>> l, noo
>> restore
>>
>> drop if regexm(myvar , "^([P][O])")
>> list, noo
>>
>> *************
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Beecroft,
> Erik
>> (VDSS)
>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010 14:26
>> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>> Betreff: st: Using regex to identify strings with capital letters
>>
>> 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])")
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Erik
>>
>>
>> Martin is correct that -inrange("Er", "AA", "ZZ")- is true. Possibly
>> this is Erik's specific problem, namely that having the first capital
>> letter in "A" ... "Z" is necessary but not sufficient.
>>
>> I offer as a stronger criterion
>>
>> inrange(substr(myvar,1,1), "A", "Z") & inrange(substr(myvar,2,1), "A",
>> "Z")
>>
>> I continue to like regex solutions when they are the simplest available!
>>
>> Nick
>> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>>
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