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st: RE: loop until "0 real changes made"
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"Impavido, Gregorio" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: loop until "0 real changes made"
Date
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:02:17 +0000
Have you tried -subinstr()-? For your first line in the loop it should be:
replace `v'=subinstr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(135)'","C",.)
Gregorio
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Haluk Vahaboglu
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 9:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: loop until "0 real changes made"
Hello everybody,
I would like to ask a simple question (probably a simple question).
I am using Stata 12.1 for Linux-64 bit and dealing with Turkish characters in string variables. I convert these Turkish characters (ı, ş, ü etc) to readable equivalents (i, s, u etc). Doing this with the code below:
foreach v of var AD {
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(135)'","C")
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(176)'","I")
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(167)'","c")
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(182)'","o")
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(177)'","i")
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(158)'","G")
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(159)'","g")
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(156)'","U")
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(188)'","u")
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(197)'+`=char(158)'","S")
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(150)'","O")
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(197)'+`=char(159)'","s") }
However, this code cannot accomplish the conversion at the first time. Therefore, I have to do it 5 to 10 times to get a (0 real changes made) message.
My question is: can I make this loop run automatically until I get the (0 real changes made) message which indicates that all characters are converted.
Any help will be appreciated
Haluk Vahaboğlu
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