Yes, I have checked and it wasn't that wide of a space.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Nick Cox<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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