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Re: st: String task
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Daniel Marcelino <[email protected]>
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Re: st: String task
Date
Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:02:35 -0300
Nice, "replace day = subinstr(day, "/", " ", 1)" is more intuitive
and clear than
"g day2 = substr(day,(strpos(day,"/")+1),.)" although the second did
the job exactly as I wanted.
Daniel
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> As Kit Baum pointed out to me privately, this will produce one more
> variable than the number of slashes, so three in this example.
>
> To get exactly what Daniel wanted, here is another way:
>
> replace day = subinstr(day, "/", " ", 1)
> split day
>
> That is, the first / is replaced by a space.
>
> Nick
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:56 PM, 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:
>
>>> 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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