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st: Removing quotation marks in string variables
From
John Adam Roberts <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Removing quotation marks in string variables
Date
Fri, 5 Jul 2013 12:57:15 -0400
Hi,
I have a dataset that is full of strings that look like this:
ATUS00001213, "ATUS00001256","Jackson,Collin"
I'm going to separate these values into different variables and I'm
wondering how to remove the "s from the dataset.
For other characters, like commas, I would use the following command:
replace tags = subinstr(tags,",","",.)
but
replace tags = subinstr(tags,""","",.)
replace tags = subinstr(tags,'"',"",.)
replace tags = subinstr(tags,""",.,.)
replace tags = subinstr(tags,'"',.,.)
don't work.
Thanks in advance for the help!
-Adam
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