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From | Donald Spady <dspady@ualberta.ca> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: Extract a string portion of a string |
Date | Sat, 8 Dec 2012 18:34:39 -0700 |
try help strpos Don On 2012-12-08, at 4:23 PM, thomas bourveau <thomas.bourveau@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear readers, > > you recently helped me to extract a firm's identifier that was located > at the end of a string variable. > > I'm still working with this dataset of layoff announcements. > > Now, I need to know to which country an annoucement is related. > To do this, I need to identify if a portion of string (namely the name > of a country) appears at any position in the string. > > Specifically, I have a summary (10 to 20 words) of a newspaper article. > This is a string variable. > > For each country of the dataset, I created a variable equals to 0. > > For example, I have a variable called Canada = 0 > > I want to replace this variable by 1 if the word Canada or Canadian > appears anywhere in my string variable. > > Does anyone have any idea on that. > > Thanks in advance > Thomas > > -- > Thomas Bourveau > thomas.bourveau@gmail.com > 0637573925 > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > Donald Spady -- dspady@ualberta.ca * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/