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st:how to delete anything in the bracket for a string variable
From
Amanda Fu <[email protected]>
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Subject
st:how to delete anything in the bracket for a string variable
Date
Sun, 9 Oct 2011 00:17:10 -0400
Hi All,
I wonder if someone can give me some suggestion on delete anything in
the bracket for a string variable. A string variable in my data set
has some notes in bracket for part of the observations. I want to
remove the brackets and anything in them
An example is like:
-------------------------
id name
1 John (joined before 2005)
2 Jenny
3 Kai (joined in 2006; left in 2008)
4 Tom (inconsistent dates)
-------------------------.......
I would like to delete anything in the () for the variable "name" so
that only names are kept. But the content in the brackets are not the
same. I think that causes the -substr- does not work for this purpose.
Thank you !
Best wishes,
Amanda Fu
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