Re: st: deleting spaces in a string file

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

use the trim function; type -help trim- to learn about it

Sharooon wrote:
> I have a string file with entries such as:
>
> " davis"
> "davis"
> "davis "
> " davis "
>
> which stata is recognizing as different values, what I'd like to do is trim the spaces and have them all appear as 
>
> "davis"
>
> How can I do that? 
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