Re: st: Macro parsing question

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

You can go

local X1 = substr("`X'", 1, strpos("`X'", "X") - 1)
local X2 = substr("`X'", strpos("`X'", "X") + 1, .)

or

gettoken X1 X : X, parse("X")
gettoken sep X2 : X, parse("X")

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 7 January 2014 02:28, Benjamin Villena <benjamin.villena.r@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
>  Suppose I have a macro X of this form:
>
>  local X part_oneXpart_two
>
>  How could I generally obtain two macros taking values "part_one" and
> "part_two"?
>
>  So, in general, I need to count characters until the "X" and obtain a
> word from the first character until the one just before "X". Then, I
> need to obtain a word from the character just after "X" until the end.
>
>  Thanks
>
>  Benjamín
>
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