Nick Cox wrote (excerpted):
proper("foobar's son")
yields
Foobar'S Son
which isn't my view of proper English.
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There doesn't seem to be any direct approach using -proper()- other than
substituting with a lower-case ASCII letter character that doesn't otherwise
appear in any variable's label, if Dimitriy is so lucky.
forvalues i = 0/255 {
display char(`i'), subinstr(proper(subinstr("foobar's son", "'", ///
char(`i'), 1)), char(`i'), "'", 1)
}
I can understand the function's logic for hyphens (mountbatten-windsor), but
not for ligatures or characters with diacritical marks. Or apostrophes, for
that matter. That might be something for StataCorp to ponder. In the
interim, Dimitriy's problem might yield to an approach using regular
expressions.
Joseph Coveney
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