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st: Re: finding a word within a string variable in Stata 12
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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st: Re: finding a word within a string variable in Stata 12
Date
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:21:46 +0000
I haven't tried to see what doesn't work with the regex machinery
because this problem seems to call only for
gen construction = strpos(sic, "construction") > 0
Nick
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Navarro Paniagua, Maria
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Professor Cox,
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> I am trying to find a word (for instance construction) within a string
> variable (sic), the string can have as categories (construction 1, b
> construction)
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> Could you please help me with this?
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> gen construction = regexs(1) if regexm(sic, "[construction]+")
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> g one = 1 if strmatch(sic, "*constr*")
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