Re: st: RE: Dropping parts of strings (i.e. Baldwin County becomes Baldwin)

[Cody Cook <cookcfc@gmail.com>]

Hi Andrew, 

Thanks for the response! I think this route is promising, but (just by looking at the code, I haven’t run it) it looks like it may have trouble with counties that have two words in their name, or no? Is there a way to account for this? 

Best,
Cody 



On Mar 6, 2014, at 11:13 AM, Andrew Maurer <Andrew.Maurer@qrm.com> wrote:

> Maybe not the most efficient way, but this works (replaces internal underscores with spaces):
> 
> local name __united_kingdom__+___county
> di trim(subinstr(substr(`"`name'"',1,strpos(`"`name'"',"+")-1),"_"," ",.))
> 
> or for if your variable is named "oldname":
> gen newname = trim(subinstr(substr(oldname,1,strpos(oldname,"+")-1),"_"," ",.))
> 
> (if you want internal underscores then gen newname2 = subinstr(newname," ","_",.)
> 
> Andrew Maurer 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Cody Cook
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 11:02 AM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Dropping parts of strings (i.e. Baldwin County becomes Baldwin)
> 
> 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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