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Re: st: replacing asterisks in a string
From
Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: replacing asterisks in a string
Date
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:22:50 -0400
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Not quite-- the regular expression only deletes the first occurrence,
a shortcoming of Stata's regular expressions parser that's bitten me
before,, but Eric's expression works.
Steve
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Steve Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
> Or to delete * and parentheses:
>
>
> gen v3 = regexr(v1,"\*|\(|\)","")
>
> Steve
> [email protected]
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Lim, Raymond <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello Statalisters,
>> How does one flag a string containing an asterisk, which in Stata is a wildcard? I want to flag the observations with an asterisk and then delete the asterisk. This is what I would do to flag/delete a parenthesis.
>>
>> replace flag_parenthesis=1 if strmatch(varname, "*)")
>> replace varname=subinstr(varname,")","",.)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Raymond
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