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Re: st: a warning -- help
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"Katie and Matt O'Varanese" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: a warning -- help
Date
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:11:45 -0500
eric, that worked like a charm! THANK YOU!
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Eric Booth <[email protected]> wrote:
> <>
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> try: replace var = subinstr(var, "`=char(160)'", "", .)
>
> replacing "var" with your variable name.
>
> See these threads for more:
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-10/msg00139.html
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-04/msg00891.html
>
> - Eric
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> On Nov 18, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Katie and Matt O'Varanese wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am working with data that for a program variable (i.d. - Grade 10,
>> Grade 11, etc) shows up sometimes in the browse as "Grade 10
>> +++++++++++++" (but more like an icon that looks like a cross, not a
>> plus sign.
>>
>> Also, a warning comes up in codebook that says "warning: this variable
>> contains embedded blanks".
>>
>> How can i get rid of the crosses? Any tricks out there?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kate
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