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Re: st: strip factor variable operators?
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: strip factor variable operators?
Date
Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:29:19 +0100
-tsrevar- is a start.
Nick
[email protected]
On 13 August 2013 22:22, Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear statalisters,
>
> is there a simple way to strip out the time series and factor variable
> operators? I have a list of regressors with all sorts of stuff like
> -i.foreign ib3.rep78 c.price##c.price-, and I want to produce a list
> that is cleaned off the prefixes, just -foreign rep78 price-. Is there
> a standard parser, or an extended macro function, to do this? I can
> take the whole list, -gettoken, parse(".")- each term and strip the
> part before the dot, if there's any. But this seems like a relatively
> mundane task that must be doable with some official Stata tools.
>
>
> -- Stas Kolenikov, PhD, PStat (ASA, SSC)
> -- Senior Survey Statistician, Abt SRBI
> -- Opinions stated in this email are mine only, and do not reflect the
> position of my employer
> -- http://stas.kolenikov.name
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