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Re: st: Does -strpos()- return the second occurrence of a string?
From
Pedro Nakashima <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Does -strpos()- return the second occurrence of a string?
Date
Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:38:10 -0300
Thank you
2013/4/20 Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
> Replace the first temporarily by a mask of the same length.
>
> . di strpos("frogtoadfrog", "frog")
> 1
>
> . di strpos(subinstr("frogtoadfrog", "frog", "grog", 1), "frog")
> 9
>
> This works for variables too.
>
> See also -moss- (SSC) and
>
> http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=dm0056
>
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 20 April 2013 15:54, Pedro Nakashima <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear users
>>
>> I'm looking for a way to identify the position of a string, which is
>> not the first.
>>
>> For example, when we use-strpos () - to find the underscore "_" in the word:
>>
>> ab_cd_ef
>>
>> The function strpos () will return 3. But I wanted to return the
>> position of the second occurrence, 6.
>>
>> Does anyone know a way to deal with this problem?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Peter
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