Interesting. In fact, my test was like this:
gen foo = "stuff`more"
replace foo = subinstr(foo,"\`","'",.)
and that does work (for me).
I confirm that it doesn't work as below.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Ulrich Kohler
> Sent: 20 January 2004 19:46
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: RE: string replacement
>
>
> Nick Cox wrote:
> > Good. Another solution appears to be
> > to escape the usual interpretation of `
> >
> > with a backslash:
> > : subinstr local label "\`" "'", all
>
> which doesn't work. I guess that Stata interprets this as
>
> : subinstr local label "" "'", all
>
> uli
>
>
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected]
> > > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> > > Ulrich Kohler
> > > Sent: 20 January 2004 17:39
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: st: RE: string replacement
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, it works. Thanks a lot!
> > > uli
> > >
> > > Nick Cox wrote:
> > > > Try
> > > >
> > > > foreach var of varlist _all {
> > > > local label: variable label `var'
> > > > local lnewlab: subinstr local label
> "`=char(96)'" "'", all
> > > > label variable `var' "`lnewlab'"
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > Nick
> > > > [email protected]
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: [email protected]
> > > > > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> > > > > Ulrich Kohler
> > > > > Sent: 20 January 2004 17:14
> > > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > > Subject: st: string replacement
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a dataset were several variables labeled as follows:
> > > > >
> > > > > "household`s equivalent income"
> > > > > ^^^
> > > > >
> > > > > Please note the sign before the s in household's. It is the
> > > > > opening single
> > > > > quotation mark, as it is used in Stata to mark local
> > > > > macros, combound qoutes
> > > > > etc.
> > > > >
> > > > > I like to change that sign into ', that is a closing single
> > > > > qoutation mark.
> > > > > The reason for this is, that it seems the fault of this
> > > > > sign, that I get some
> > > > > unexpected errors, i.e.
> > > > >
> > > > > . lookfor xyz
> > > > > { required
> > > > > r(100);
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried:
> > > > >
> > > > > foreach var of varlist _all {
> > > > > local label: variable label `var'
> > > > > local lnewlab: subinstr local label `"`"' `"'"', all
> > > > > label variable `var' "`lnewlab'"
> > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > But this don't work. What else could be done (excluding
> > > > > retyping by hand).
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas highly appreciated
> > > > > uli
> > > > >
> > > > >
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