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| From | KOTa <kota.alba@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: strings |
| Date | Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:05:14 +0100 |
Hi all, i have 2 questions: 1. i am using split command to divide my string variables into parts, is there any way to force the split only by last occurrence of the split sequence? e.g. if strings are like "ABC BLINCAR COMPANY INC" and i want remove the "INC" from all the strings. if i use split, p(INC) i will get "ABC BL" instead of "ABC BLINCAR COMPANY". 2. is there any way to force stata to ignore letters case when comparing strings? e.g. if i merge 2 files by string variable i want that name "ROGER" and name "Roger" would be recognized as the same string thank you * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/