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Re: st: using regex
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Steven Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: using regex
Date
Thu, 2 Dec 2010 17:58:32 -0500
The regular expression solution is:
gen fips = real(regexs(1)) if regexm(x,"([0-9][0-9]?)[0-9][0-9][0-9]")
Steve
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On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Rijo John wrote:
Hi statlist,
I have a string variable (code) with state and county codes merged.
For example, the observation 12001 indicate that the first 2 digits
are state codes and the remaining 3 digits are county codes. I want to
create a new variable (fips) only with the state code. I use the
following
gen fips = regexs(0) if(regexm(code, "[0-9][0-9]"))
and it works fine when the code contains 5 digits. But if a particular
state code is only 1 digit and thereby the string "code" only has a
total of 4 digits the trick above does not work. In such cases I want
to only extract the first digit.
Can someone help?
Thanks.
Rijo.
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