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| From | Philipp Rehm <philipp.rehm@gmx.de> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Changing missing values in string variable |
| Date | Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:57:04 -0400 |
. How about: replace sector="OTHER" if sector=="." HTH, Ph On 6/17/2010 10:43 PM, Jason Hecht wrote:
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? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
* * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/