compute new variable from string text

[mattwro]

I'm trying to create a new variable based on the contents of a string. I have e-mail addresses for a set of survey respondents, and I want to create a variable that will categorize the respondents as either "internal" or "external". Internal respondents would be those whose e-mail addresses contain my company name, for example "[e-mail]" would be internal while any e-mail addresses that do not contain "abc.com" would be external. Any ideas? Thanks!

[Rick Oliver-3]

compute newvar=index(stringvar, "abc.com")>0.

Newvar will be 1 for all cases of stringvar that contain "abc.com" and 0 for those that do not.



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I'm trying to create a new variable based on the contents of a string. I have
e-mail addresses for a set of survey respondents, and I want to create a
variable that will categorize the respondents as either "internal" or
"external". Internal respondents would be those whose e-mail addresses
contain my company name, for example "[hidden email]" would be internal
while any e-mail addresses that do not contain "abc.com" would be external.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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