-- Re: st: Writing out Names with special signs or words -- Can't write

["Akihito Tokuhara" <akitoku4@hotmail.com>]

Dear Austin,

Thanks for sending me the example. Unfortunately, I can replicate the 
results.

I write down a small DO file, writing all 33 examples of names as in my 
first posting,
but the program starts to have error messeages. For example:

(1) Example 1
gen x30= ""CDC POINT - S.P.A. (ANCHE IN FORM";

-- error message is:   . gen x30= ""CDC POINT - S.P.A. (ANCHE IN FORM"
invalid 'POINT'
r(198);

(2) Example 2:
. gen x34= "Weird Combination (quotes "-and hyphen' a]pos`trophe 1-d_5."
and not found
r(111);

Writing out to text file:
file open wot2 using L:\wtest3.txt, write append

. file write wot2 _n "`x[1]'"

. file write wot2 _n "` x[2] '"

And the text file only show blanks lines !!

I have more than one million names to do, so it is almost impossible to 
search for weird
combinations of signs manually.

Similarly, the same problems also exist when I "chop" the names into parts 
and compare
those parts to other names' part.

But many thanks for your example code.


Akihito

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> From: "Austin Nichols" <austinnichols@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: Writing out Names with special signs or words
> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:13:32 -0500
>
> There's no reason you shouldn't be able to write out the strings you
> have shown, but it's possible that by pasting the strings into email,
> you have stripped out some problematic characters.
> ____________________
> set obs 1
> gen x="`IPAD AD DOBOJ"
> file open f using /f.txt, write replace
> file write f _n "`=x[1]'"
> file close _all
> type /f.txt
>
> `IPAD AD DOBOJ
> ____________________
> works, so the string as shown is fine.  Do you need the special
> characters in the names--they are not readable as is, anyway, right?
> Unless you specify a Bosnian font for only the Bosnian names, which is
> not possible for most applications. If you don't need them, see
> -findit charlist- for a way to identify them and then zap them with
> (for example) the subinstr() function.
>
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