Hi,
I have a dataframe Olddata created with loadd() from a CSV file. The first three columns/variables are strings and the remaining columns are numerical values. I would like to organize my data according to the length of the string in the third column.
newdata = selif(olddata, strlen(olddatal[.,3]) .== 6) ;
The result this gives me, is the name of the variable in the first column, which makes no sense at all.
Even when I try
strlen(olddatal[3,3])
it just gives me a zero even though the length of string in [3,3] is actually 5.
However, it does work when I do this
newdata = selif(olddata, olddatal[.,3]) .== "01000") ;
It just seems that STRLEN is not really compitible with the strings in the dataframe. How else would I sort my data according to the length of the observations of a string variable?