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st: replace part of observations in a string variable
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st: replace part of observations in a string variable
Date
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:02:35 +0100
Hi all,
I want to replace part of observations in the string variable to
missing values. For example, I want to replace "Pasir Mas" to either
"." or " " from a string variable named as "new2"
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new2
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Tumpat
Tumpat
Kota Bharu
Kota Bharu
Pasir Mas
Kota Bharu
Kota Bharu
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what I did was:
. replace addnew2=" " if addnew2 == "Pasir Mas"
(0 real changes made)
Observation "Pasir Mas" was not replaced by " " . What have I done
wrong? What is the better way of working with string variable?
Appreciate everyone's' time in responding to this.
Regards
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