Re: st: RE: Help on double or single quote search in a String

[Tom Trikalinos <ttrikalin@mac.com>]

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.

Cheers,
Tom

On Oct 26, 2004, at 7:13 PM, David Harrison wrote:


> Use compound double quotes - ie `" for open quote and "' for close 
> quote. So the string containing the double quote character is written 
> as `"""'
>
> e.g.
>
> . di index(`"string with " quotes"',`"""')
> 13
>
> David
> david@icnarc.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MITRA PINAKI (MAR1PXM) [mailto:mar1pxm@ups.com]
> Sent: 26 October 2004 16:54
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Help on double or single quote search in a String
>
>
> Hello List,
>
>     I have a string variable which has double quotes and/or single 
> quotes in
> some of the values and I would like to delete and generate a new 
> variable.
>
> For example,
> Old Name			New Name
> Brad  Allred"s		Brad  Allreds
> STEVEN" KROFF'		STEVEN KROFF
>
> How can I put the double quote <"> and/or single quote <'> in the index
> string function to search for and delete it? I can't figure out the 
> trick to
> search for quotes in a string variable; I get the error message "too 
> few
> quotes" in all my attempts. Can anyone please help me with this?
>
> Thank you,
> Pinaki
>
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