Compound double quotes must be used to enclose any string that contains quotes:
gen quote = `"""'
I can't speak for the what the data editor does (as I hardly touch it), although it does seem to have some strange behaviour if you try to enter quotes... I can't manage to enter a single " character in it.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Sherman, Richard [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 19 May 2005 16:25
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: generate a string variable holding a double quote?
Dear Statalist,
Is it possible to create a string variable containing only the character
" ? Stata 8 won't let me do so with the command
gen quote = """
or in the data editor.
This would be convenient for, e.g, labeling variables with the values of
another variable.
Thanks,
Richard Sherman
Department of Political Science, Leiden University
Leiden, Netherlands
http://homepage.mac.com/richard.sherman/
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