NSPLIT: Stata module to split numeric variable into components

Dan Blanchette ()
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Dan Blanchette: Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: nsplit creates however many new numeric variables it takes to split a numeric variable into the specified digit pattern. So if you have a date variable where the first two digits are the month and the last 4 digits are the year, you can use nsplit like so: nsplit date, digits(2 4) generate(month year)

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8.2
Keywords: numeric variables; split; digits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-12-04, Revised 2009-04-19
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install nsplit". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/n/nsplit.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/n/nsplit.hlp help file (text/plain)

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