Ric,
If the name of the variable is "country" you can remove the asterisks
with this command:
. replace country = subinstr(country,"*","",.)
Friedrich
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Eric Uslaner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have several data sets (from the World Bank Governance indicators) where the names of countries sometimes have one or two asterisks following their names, e.g.:
>
> Afghanistan
> Albania**
> Armenia
> Azerbaijan*
>
> etc. I want to get rid of the asterisks to merge them with a master data set. Aside from editing each name individually, I presume that there is an easier way that I just don't know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ric Uslaner
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