st: RE: RE: stata could delete all the row of a variable containing characters like "¿"

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

-asciiplot- is by Michael Blasnik, Svend Juul and myself. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Martin Weiss

Stata will delete those happily if you find a way to tell it what to -drop-.
In this case, -ssc d asciiplot- by Nick Cox tells you which number to pass
to -char()- to check for the presence of the character:

*******
clear*

inp str10 mystrvar
"hello"
"goo¿d-bye"
"he¿lo"
"goo¿d-bye"
"hello"
"hello"
end

list, noo

drop if strpos(mystrvar, "`=char(191)'")!=0

list, noo
*******

carmen gamarra

Another question, stata could delete
all the row of a variable containing characters like
"¿", for example.


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