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st: Using substr with embedded quotes
From
Simone Peart Boyce <[email protected]>
To
Stata <[email protected]>
Subject
st: Using substr with embedded quotes
Date
Tue, 5 Feb 2013 07:23:50 -0800 (PST)
Hi,
I have a string that contains quotes. When I try to do use substr to extract a portion of this string, substr seems to ignore everything after the quote. Here is my example.
local if="if type=="breast""
local x=substr("`if'",3,.)
disp "`x'"
type==
Why is "breast" being ignored?
Thanks in advance,
Simone
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