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RE: st: wildcard in numeric variable
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: wildcard in numeric variable
Date
Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:41:18 +0100
"a*" in this context is not a wildcard. It is a literal string. You need -regexm()- or -strmatch()- for the wildcard interpretation.
Nick
[email protected]
tashi lama
I have an example that fails to replace string var using wildcard in expression. I tried this and it fails... Any idea? var1 is string.
var1
abc
ab
d
e
replace var1="" if var1=="a*"
0 obs replaced.
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