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Re: st: Need Help Recoding a variable -Dealing with string expression
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Michael Stewart <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Need Help Recoding a variable -Dealing with string expression
Date
Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:06:27 -0400
HI Nick,
It works like a charm.
Thanks a lot for your help.
--
Thank you ,
Yours Sincerely,
Mike.
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Same answer, really. Something like
>
> destring strvar, gen(numvar) force
>
> replace numvar = 3 if strpos(strvar, ">") | strpos(strvar, "<") |
> regexm(strvar, "[a-z]+")
>
> You need to find out about string functions. -help functions-.
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Michael Stewart
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thank you Nick and Daniel .
>>
>> I am sorry that my post want clear enough.
>>
>> Once I destring, with a force option, I get some missing values
>> corresponding to non numeric vaulues.
>>
>> I wanted to recode the missing values in the new variable to number 3
>> if there is an alphabet(could be anything from a to z) or a symbol (<
>> or > ) in the corresponding observation for the original variable
>> like "sometimes" "< two" "<3" ">5 " "<0.5" ">four" .
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> The question is too general to answer fully but one pattern is just
>>>
>>> recode x <whatever> if y == "foo"
>>>
>>> In addition to exact equality of string values there are many other
>>> possibilities involving string functions.
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Michael Stewart
>
>>>> I need to recode a variable if another variable has a nonnumeric
>>>> string observation(could have any non-numeric expression)
>>>>
>>>> Eg: recode x(......) if y =TSTATA COMMAND (any non-numeric
>>>> string expression)
>>>>
>>>> Can you please help me with the command to take into consideraiton
>>>> "any non-numeric string expression "
>
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