Two solutions:
1. Use -char()- to summon up an ASCII character.
May be OS-dependent. See also -asciiplot- on SSC.
2. (More Stataish.) Use SMCL. "{c S|}" is the
dollar character.
. local y "Balance ({c S|}bn)"
. di "`y'"
Balance ($bn)
Incidentally, I guess you are showing money
amounts in billions of USD. Inserting an apostrophe
into a contraction or abbreviation is, I believe, ungrammatical,
or nonstandard, at least in English. You wouldn't
write "m's" for "metres" or "lb's" for "pounds".
Nick
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Ferry, Danielle
This works fine:
. di "Balance (\$Bn's)"
Balance ($Bn's)
But this doesn't:
. local Y "Balance (\$Bn's)"
. di "`Y'"
Balance ('s)
How can I make it display correctly in the second instance?
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