st: RE: Another question regarding string variables

[Kieran McCaul <kieran.mccaul@uwa.edu.au>]

....

You can do this with regular expressions:

clear *
input str20 name
"John Howard R"
end
gen first = regexs(1) if regexm(name, "([a-zA-Z]+)[ ]*([a-zA-Z]+)[ ]*[a-zA-Z]")
gen last = regexs(2)+ " " +regexs(3)  if regexm(name, "([a-zA-Z]+)[ ]*([a-zA-Z]+)[ ]*([a-zA-Z])")
list

or you could do it with the word() function:

clear *
input str20 name
"John Howard R"
end
gen first = word(name,1)
gen last = word(name,2)+ " " +word(name,3)
list



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Stewart
Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2013 11:55 AM
To: statalist
Subject: st: Another question regarding string variables

Hi,

I  am sorry to keep bothering you regarding string variables
I am trying to find if there is a function to split a  string "Howard
James R" --> "Howard"  & ("James R")
If I use Split, I would get Howard, James and R which is not what I want
I want to split the string after the first word  into two string
variables  first variable containing first word and second variable
containing rest of the string

-- 
Thank you ,
Yours Sincerely,
Mike.
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