In particular, have you checked whether tabs are involved?
Nick
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Roy Wada
It's probably a non-space character. You should copy and paste one
into the subinstr( ) function.
> replace bankname = subinstr(bankname, " ", "", .)
>
> which didn't work. I could encode the variable then single out the
> numeric value of the observations that I want to keep, but I was
> wondering if there was a non-manual way around this. If anyone has
> advice on this, I'd appreciate it.
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