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Re: st: indicator for "if cell contains the word or phrase"
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Shehzad Ali <[email protected]>
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Re: st: indicator for "if cell contains the word or phrase"
Date
Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:27:16 +0100 (BST)
Thanks, Nick. As always, your advice is spot on and very helpful!
Many thanks
Shehzad
----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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> Sent: Sunday, 16 September 2012, 16:05
> Subject: Re: st: indicator for "if cell contains the word or phrase"
>
> . gen stuff_present = strpos(strvar, "stuff") > 0
>
> For a case-insensitive match compare "stuff" with -lower(strvar)-.
>
> Nick
>
> On 16 Sep 2012, at 15:44, Shehzad Ali <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I have a variable var1 that describes various situations in the form of
> long description. I want to generate a dummy variable var2 equal to 1 if var1
> contains a certain word 'xyz' or phrase. var1 may contain other words
> but I want to check if xyz or a certain phrase appears in the cell or not.
>>
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