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Re: st: Changing missing values in string variable
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Philipp Rehm <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Changing missing values in string variable
Date
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:23:37 -0400
.
And how about this?
replace sector="OTHER" if sector==""
(You claimed that missing values were represented by "."; it seems they
are not).
Ph
On 6/17/2010 11:15 PM, Jason Hecht wrote:
It didn't work. I got "0 real changes made." It looks like it just
made blanks where there wer "."'s.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Philipp Rehm<[email protected]> wrote:
.
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?
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