Re: st: extract string portion

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:14 AM, thomas bourveau wrote:
> I am working on a dataset where I need to extract an identifier for
> the parent company of my observations. Here are two examples:
>
> OnlineChoice.com, Inc. (Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC))
> Peppers & Rogers Group (TeleTech Holdings Inc. (NasdaqGS:TTEC))
>
> As you can see the dataset provides the name of the company, its stock
> exchange and its identifier (the Ticker) in the same row.
>
> I'm interested in retrieving the Ticker (EXC and TTEC in the
> abovementioned examples).

For more see: -help string functions-

*------------------------- begin example --------------------------
drop _all
input str63 company
"OnlineChoice.com, Inc. (Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC))"
"Peppers & Rogers Group (TeleTech Holdings Inc. (NasdaqGS:TTEC))"
end

gen begin = strpos(company,":")+1
gen end = length(company) - 1
gen ticker = substr(company,begin,end-begin)

list
*-------------------------- end example ---------------------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
 http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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