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Re: AW: st: replace-all can crash do-file
From
Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: AW: st: replace-all can crash do-file
Date
Sun, 16 May 2010 16:58:54 -0400
Stata's regular expression parser has many limitations, but this is
not one of them. The "^" has told the parser to look only for digits
at the start of a line.
Steve
Steven J Samuels
18 Cantine's Island
Saugerties NY USA
845-246-0774
For example, if you type ^[0-9]+ in the "find what" box, it finds all
expressions of a series of digits in the do file. But it only find
those digit series that are at the very beginning of a line, not those
that are somewhere in the middle of a line, or even those that start
at a line after one space.
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