Good advice, but all this works the same under Windows,
fortunately.
Nick
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Tom Trikalinos
> Perhaps another way around is to use the _char()_ function
> . index(yourStringVariable, char(n))
>
> In MacOsX at least:
> n=39 id the right single quote (')
> n=96 is the left quote (`)
> n=34 is the double quote (")
>
> This is different in Windows.
>
> To easily see what n corresponds to what character in your platform,
> run the following in a do-file:
> forvalues i=1/255{
> di "`i' for " char(`i')
> }
>
> and pick the n you need.
>
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