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RE: st: Working with complex strings
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"Dudekula, Anwar" <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Working with complex strings
Date
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:43:41 +0000
Thank you very much
I will work on it .Would the parse() option split metoprolol tatrate 150mg bid as
metoprolol tatrate and 150mg bid
Or
metoprolol & tatrate & 150mg & bid
Thank you
Anwar
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Nakoneshny
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Working with complex strings
- help split - would have answered this question.
- split medication, parse( ) -
should do what you want.
Steve
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On Nov 29, 2011, at 9:54 PM, "Dudekula, Anwar" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Stata List Reader,
>
> I am working with deidentified hospitaldatabase with patient names(as string variable) and medications (as string variable)as follows
>
> Patients_name medication
> ------------------------------------
> Patient-1 metoprolol 100 mg qday
> Patient-1 metoprolol tatrate 150mg bid
> Patient-1 atenelol 150 mg qday
> Patient-2 hctz 25 mg qday
> Patient-2 PEG interferon
> Patient-3 cimzia 50 mg qday
>
> Question: I am interested in name of medication only , not their dosages.Is it possible to split the medication string after the name i.e.,
>
> 1) split metoprolol tatrate 150mg bid into metoprolol tatrate & 150mg bid
> 2) split metoprolol 100 mg qday into metoprolol & 100 mg qday
>
> Thank you,
> Yours Sincerely,
> Anwar
>
>
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