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st: Split string variable
From
Suryadipta Roy <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
st: Split string variable
Date
Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:54:14 -0400
Dear Statalisters,
I have the following problem that probably needs some intelligent
application of -substr- and/or -trim- , but that I have not been able
to achieve so far. I have a string variable (name "ccodealp_year")
that takes the following observations:
AFG46
AFG47
...
...
VDR09
VDR10
Each observation is a three-digit country code followed by two-digit
year. I need to create a variable consisting of just the three-digit
country codes, i.e. need to remove the two-digit years from each
observation of the string variable. I have also tried something like:
foreach w of varlist ccodealp_year { gen `ccodealp' =
"`ccodealp_year'-`year'" }, obviously without success. I was wondering
if anyone can point me to the right direction. Any help is greatly
appreciated.
Best regards.
Suryadipta.
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