Re: st: Changing specific letter in observations from string variable

[Philipp Rehm <philipp.rehm@gmx.de>]

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-subinstr()- is your friend.

Example:

clear

input str7 wrong
BA�OS
SA�O
CA�ARIS
HUA�EC
end

gen right=subinstr(wrong,"�","�",.)

HTH,
Philipp

Max Perez Leon wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a dataset that has the following problem:
>
> I suppose my dataset had some problem in a conversion from dbf to dat 
> and now, some observations in one of my string variable have the next form:
> ...
> BA�OS
> SA�O
> CA�ARIS
> HUA�EC
> ...
>
> but they should be:
>
> ...
> BA�OS
> SA�O
> CA�ARIS
> HUA�EC
> ...
>
> How could I change that single letter?
> Thanks,
> Max PUCP-IEP
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