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Re: st: RE: remove special characters from string
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Skipper Seabold <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: remove special characters from string
Date
Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:09:14 -0400
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
Right. Thanks. Obviously I was overlooking subinstr. Sorry for the noise.
Skipper
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