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Re: st: Compound double quote


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Compound double quote
Date   Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:56:50 +0100

The first token of

"AMC Concord", 2, 4

even when parsing on commas is reported as

AMC Concord

as Stata's tendency is to strip " " as delimiters at each level of
parsing. To insist that " " are included as part of the token, I think
you need to start with

local line `" `""AMC Concord""', 2, 4 "'
tokenize `"`line'"', parse(",")
di `"`1'"'

Appropriate thanks would to be stop misspelling "Thanks" !

Nick

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:34 PM, tashi lama <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>    Could someone help me with the following
>
> local line "AMC Concord", 2, 4
> tokenize `"`line'"', parse(",")
> di `"`1'"'
> AMC Concord  (I was hoping to get "AMC Concord" with double quotation). Any idea?
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