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st: Changing missing values in string variable
From
Jason Hecht <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Changing missing values in string variable
Date
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:43:03 -0400
I have a string variable with abbreviations for different sectors
(e.g., "CYC" for consumer cyclicals). I want to change the "."'s to
"OTHER." Is there an easy "replace" or "recode" command to do this
for a string variable?
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