Re: st: replace part of observations in a string variable

[Muhammad Anees <anees@aneconomist.com>]

Hi,

This can be for you.

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-06/msg00393.html

HTH
Anees

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:02 PM, <redacted> wrote:
> 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"
>
> ------------------------------------
> new2
> ------------------------------------
> Tumpat
> Tumpat
> Kota Bharu
> Kota Bharu
> Pasir Mas
> Kota Bharu
> Kota Bharu
> --------------------------------------
>
> 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
>
> <redacted>
> <redacted>
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