Re: st: Another question regarding string variables

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Some more explanation might be wished.

First off, there is a tacit assumption here that the name has been
trimmed of leading and trailing spaces.

Use -trim()- first, therefore.

Second, the logic is that if the last word is a single character, then
the previous character is a space. So we look for a space as the
penultimate (one before last) character of a name.

Note that

replace fullname = subinstr(substr(fullname, -2, 2), "", 1)  if
substr(fullname, -2, 1) == " "

is _not_ the way to do it as can be seen from

. local foo "John Anthony A"

. di subinstr("`foo'", substr("`foo'", -2, 2), "", 1)
Johnnthony A

Nick

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. For example
>
> replace fullname = substr(fullname, 1, length(fullname) - 2) if
> substr(fullname, -2, 1) == "  "
>
> Nick
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Dudekula, Anwar <dudekulaan@upmc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to trim last word if it is one alphabet wide like removing. A from   ( Graham , Tony   A )
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