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Re: st: Extracting part of string var
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Rohit Sonika <[email protected]>
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Statalist <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Extracting part of string var
Date
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:00:03 +0000
Perfect!
Thanks, Nick!
On 10 Dec 2013, at 21:58, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> replace var = subinstr(var, ".", "", .)
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> Nick
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> On 10 December 2013 21:55, Rohit Sonika <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Statalist,
>>
>> I am trying to extract part of string variable that looks something like this:
>>
>> var
>> ..1…….2….3
>> 1..3………..2
>> ……..2..1..1.
>>
>> The occurrence of 1, 2 and 3 are randomly placed and no predefined order. I am trying to obtain just the numeric part of the variable so that I am able to retain the order of numbers: 123, 132 and 211 in the example above. Hence, I am only trying to remove the dots (.) from the string variable.
>>
>> I am running Stata 13 on Mac 10.9.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Rohit
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