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Re: st: Need help with regular expression
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Michael Stewart <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Need help with regular expression
Date
Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:30:17 -0500
Thank you Nick and Alison.
Sincerely
MIke
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Alison Connor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> That is my fault - The $ denotes the end. Not "&". Sorry about that!
>
> ~A
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Michael Stewart
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Nick and Alison,
>> One quick question.(sorry, I am a novice to regular expressions)
>> The two functions di regexm("show us", " us$") & di regexm("show us",
>> " us&") have different results.
>> what is the difference between these functions ??
>> Thank you very much .
>> Sincerely
>> Mike
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Alison's suggestion is surely right. If your condition is not
>>> restrictive enough, you need to make it more restrictive.
>>>
>>> If it is a separate word, it occurs surrounded by spaces or at the
>>> beginning or end with one space after or before. I tend to build up
>>> syntax using -display- and little examples.
>>>
>>> . di regexm("us marines", "^us ")
>>> 1
>>>
>>> . di regexm("show us", " us$")
>>> 1
>>>
>>> . di regexm("invited us to dinner", " us ")
>>> 1
>>>
>>> You could also use -strpos()-
>>>
>>> ... if strpos(var, " us ") | strpos(var, "us ") == 1 | strpos(var, " us") == -3
>>>
>>> Note that -regexm()- is a function, not a command. in Stata functions
>>> and commands are quite separate in definition and documentation.
>>> -strpos()- is another function. Fixing _function_ firmly in mind as
>>> the key term leads to consultation of the documentation on functions,
>>> which as here can suggest alternatives.
>>>
>>> There are also solutions with -word()- but they all seem to entail a loop.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Alison Connor
>>>
>>>> I am sure there is a much better way to do this, but until someone who
>>>> actually knows responds, could you try something like:
>>>>
>>>> regexm(var, " us ") | regexm(var, " us&") | regexm(var, "^us ") ?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Michael Stewart
>>>
>>>>> I am trying to use regexm command (regexm(var,"us"))to see if the
>>>>> values of variable have a particular string "us" like in "us thyroid"
>>>>> .Unfortunately , it is picking up "us" from other string values like
>>>>> "venous".If there a way to formulate command so that it can pick up
>>>>> only values where "us" is a separate word and not part of word like
>>>>> venous.
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Thank you ,
>> Yours Sincerely,
>> Mike.
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Thank you ,
Yours Sincerely,
Mike.
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