st: replacing carriage return/linefeed in text strings

[Devra Golbe <devra.golbe@hunter.cuny.edu>]

Listers,

I have a data file which includes several string variables which evidently 
contain an end-of-line character, as in the following

list consid in 1/2

                           consid
  1.                CASH
NOTE
LIA
  2.                         CASH

 I'd like to break the string variables into multiple variables using the 
end-of-line character as a delimiter (and ultimately eliminate the 
end-of-line character).  Because there are about 1400 observations I'd like 
to avoid doing this by hand.  I know I can search using the index function: 
index(stringvar, s2), but I don't know how to represent the end-of-line 
character  for s2.  Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks,
Devra


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