> Nick,
> Thanks for your suggestions.
> The quote characters work fine for me too in that same
> context, but for
> some reason, within my dofile the exact same code produces the r(612)
> error, "unexpected end of file."
> replace `var' = subinstr(`var',`"""',"",.);
> That peice of code is in a series of replace commands within
> a for loop.
> when i comment out that single line it works fine...otherwise
> i get that
> error.
The following code works fine for me, as part of a 'do' file:
clear
set obs 1
gen str10 x= `"abc"def"'
gen str10 y= `"abc"def"'
list
foreach var in x y {
replace `var' = subinstr(`var',`"""',"",.)
}
list
Nick WInter
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