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st: Dropping parts of strings (i.e. Baldwin County becomes Baldwin)
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Cody Cook <[email protected]>
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st: Dropping parts of strings (i.e. Baldwin County becomes Baldwin)
Date
Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:02:16 -0600
Hi Stata Helpers,
I have a ton of census data that I’m trying to merge with some other data. The other data only has county names, not FIPS.
For the census data, it is formatted as __name___ + ___ census type ___ where census type is either “County”, “Borough”, “Census Area” and maybe a few more. This is all in one string. I want to only keep the part that identifies the specific county.
Basically, is there a way to say "if county includes “XXXX” replace without “XXXX””
Best,
Cody
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