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Re: st: String task
From
Nick cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: String task
Date
Fri, 1 Apr 2011 17:29:55 +0100
Note also the -destring- option.
Nick
On 1 Apr 2011, at 16:56, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
Daniel Marcelino <[email protected]>:
clear
input str8 day
"01/06/90"
"07"
"02/01"
"30/01"
"10"
end
split day, p(/)
list
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Daniel Marcelino <[email protected]
> wrote:
Hello all,
I have I task with string that is split a string into two vars.
So every character before first "/" slash if is there, must be
copied
to var1. Also, everything after "/" slash or if there is no "/"
everything in the cell must be placed into var2.
How can I do it?
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