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Re: st: Splitting string by parse option
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Splitting string by parse option
Date
Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:23:32 +0000
Works for me
. gen test = "frogXOOD_toadXOOD_newt"
. split test, parse(XOOD_)
variables created as string:
test1 test2 test3
. l test* in 1
+------------------------------------------------+
| test test1 test2 test3 |
|------------------------------------------------|
1. | frogXOOD_toadXOOD_newt frog toad newt |
+------------------------------------------------+
Have you got strange characters in your variable? -charlist- (SSC) as
recently discussed here is one diagnostic tool.
Nick
[email protected]
On 5 March 2014 09:12, Sebastian Say <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi I have a string variable called cofiler, in which the cell contains
> names of organizations all separated by "XOOD_".
>
> When i tried to use the split var, parse (XOOD_) option, it shows
> cofiler1, cofiler2....cofiler42 generated.
>
> My guess is at least 1 cell has 42 names, each separated by XOOD_
>
> However, when I looked at these generated variables, it seems that
> they are all empty.
>
> When I browsed the data, in the original string variable that was to
> be splitted, it shows only 1 organization's name in any cell. However,
> when I click onto each of these cells, I can see multiple names in the
> display bar at the top.
>
> My question is, what's causing this problem? And what have I done
> wrong such that when I tried to parse the string variable, nothing
> shows up but variables were indeed generated?
>
> Best,
> Sebastian
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