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st: RE: remove special characters from string
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: RE: remove special characters from string
Date
Tue, 2 Nov 2010 20:00:57 +0000
Intuition is the weaker part of documentation. See the -help- on -functions-, particularly string function.
If they are just ..- then
replace oldstring = subinstr(oldstring, ".", "",.)
replace oldstring = subinstr(oldstring, "-", "",.)
should do it.
If the characters are exotic, then -charlist- from SSC is a utility to find out what they are.
Nick
[email protected]
Skipper Seabold
I'm trying to use reshape with a string variable, but my string
variable contains special characters. Is there a way (ideally without
using mata) to do something like (intuitively)
gen str6 newstring = string(oldstring), ignore(".-")
Ie., I have data that looks like
oldstring
A.X.B-2
A.X.B-3
A.X.B-2
A.X.B-3
I would ideally just like to create
AXB2
AXB3
AXB2
AXB3
Or should I just use a scripting language to preprocess...
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