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

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Dear Daniel,

I will take note of your suggestion.

Best wishes

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:28 AM, daniel klein
<klein.daniel.81@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I suggest to also take a look into this:
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-10/msg00454.html
> (Nick Cox once again)
>
> The problem might be characters in <new2> that appear to be spaces
> (-char(32)-), but are something else (e.g. -char(160)-).
>
> Also note that you probably do not want to -replace- the strings with
> a space, i.e. " ", but with an empty string, i.e. "" (which is Stata's
> missing value for strings).
>
> Best
> Daniel
>
> --
> 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"
>
> [...]
>
> 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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