If these were tab characters, that would be
a related but different story.
Nick
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Renzo Comolli
> Actually, I faced exactly the same problem last week copying
> material from a
> webpage. I can't guarantee that they were char(160), but for
> sure they were
> spaces of a size different from the standard Stata size.
> I also tried trim() and it did not work. I had not seen the
> discussion, so I
> did it all by hand. I don't quite remember exactly what I did
> because it
> took me so little, but I think I copied the whole thing in
> Notepad, then in Excel, then -insheet-
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