VTOKENIZE: Stata module to split a variable into its tokens

Bill Rising ()
Additional contact information
Bill Rising: University of Louisville

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: vtokenize and vgettoken do for variables what tokenize and gettoken do for strings in Stata. The main use of this is for dealing with nasty datasets. vtokenize splits every observation into its tokens, creating as many variables as needed to hold the tokens. vgettoken pulls the first token off every observation of a variable, placing the result in a variable of the user's choice, optionally placing the remainder into yet another variable. Both commands allow user-specified delimiter lists and both allow either treating the delimiters as tokens or ignoring them completely.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8.2
Keywords: tokens; variables; data management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2003-12-11
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install vtokenize". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

Downloads: (external link)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/v/vtokenize.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/v/vtokenize.hlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/v/vgettoken.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/v/vgettoken.hlp help file (text/plain)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Ordering information: This software item can be ordered from
http://repec.org/docs/ssc.php

Access Statistics for this software item

More software in Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics
Address: Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill MA 02467 USA
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Christopher F Baum ().