String management, extract words from a string with different length

[Chiara Tasselli]

Good morning,
I have a string variable which different lengths and words inside. My goal is to generate different dummy variables if inside the string some words arise:
Like:

gen wellness_table = 1 if wellness --contains-- "table"

which is the right syntax for asking something like that??

Thank you in advance for your time, wishing you all a pleasant week

[Nicola Tommasi]

gen wellness_table = 1 if strmatch(wellness,"*table*")

[Andrew Musau]

help strpos
help regexm

gen wanted1= regexm(lower(wellness), "table")
gen wanted2= strpos(lower(wellness), "table")>0

Note that these will pick words such as "comfortable" and "interactable" which include the string "table" within them. If you strictly want the word table, see https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...g-observations

[Chiara Tasselli]

Thank you both for your useful advice: you solve my problem.
Wishing you a peaceful week ahead!