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Re: st:how to delete anything in the bracket for a string variable
From
Tirthankar Chakravarty <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st:how to delete anything in the bracket for a string variable
Date
Sat, 8 Oct 2011 22:05:19 -0700
This should work:
***********************************************
clear*
input id str50 name
1 "John (joined before 2005)"
2 "Jenny"
3 "Kai (joined in 2006; left in 2008)"
4 "Tom (inconsistent dates)"
end
replace name = regexr(name, "\((.)+\)", "")
li
***********************************************
T
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Amanda Fu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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