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Re: st: How do I split my string variable by capital letters?
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Anna Reimondos <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How do I split my string variable by capital letters?
Date
Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:10:55 +1100
Hi Elena,
What about if you reshape the data to long format after splitting the
string. That way each entry would appear on its own line?
Anna
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Elena Vidal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a bit of a problem splitting a string variable.
>
> An example of the variable reads:
> var12
> "Startup/Seed
> Early Stage
> Expansion
> Expansion
> Expansion"
>
> This corresponds to a single cell. That means: all 5 lines appear in 1 cell in my data, and I want to split it up so that each line is a different variable.
>
> I've tried splitting it with this code:
>
> split var12, gen(var12b)
>
> but that didn't work.
>
> I'd appreciate the help trying to sort this out!
> Elena
>
>
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