Re: st: Stata does not understand some strings

[Federico Belotti <f.belotti@gmail.com>]

Pablo, check if the following code does what you are looking for

local unos "á é í ó ú ñ Á É Í Ó Ú Ñ ü"
local doss "a e i o u n a e i o u n u"

local label ""
forvalue i = 1/13 {   // Loop to replace accents from Spanish
	local l`i': word `i' of `=regexr("`unos'", "`:word `i' of `unos''", "`:word `i' of `doss''")'
	local label "`label' `l`i''"
}

di "`label'"

HTH
Federico

On Oct 4, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Pablo Bonilla wrote:

> Dear Statalist,
> 
> 
> 
> I have a problem the following problem: I wrote a program that is
> meant to remove all special Spanish accents from strings so I can have
> a clean sentence to compare it with other strings. My program has the
> following lines:
> 
> 
> 
> ***************
> 
> local unos "á é í ó ú ñ Á É Í Ó Ú Ñ ü"
> 
> local doss "a e i o u n a e i o u n u"
> 
> 
> 
> forvalue i = 1(1)13 {   // Loop to replace accents from Spanish
> 
>                        local uno : word `i' of  `unos'
> 
>                        local dos : word `i' of   `doss'
> 
>                        local label :       subinstr local label
> "`uno'" "`dos'", all
> 
> }
> 
> ******************
> 
> However it is not replacing the accents because, when I looked at the
> trace, Stata is understanding something totally different. Like this:
> 
> ***********************
> 
>      - local unos "á é í ó ú ñ Á É Í Ó Ú Ñ ü"
> 
>      - local doss "a e i o u n a e i o u n u"
> 
>      - forvalue i = 1(1)13 {
> 
>      - local uno : word `i' of `unos'
> 
>      = local uno : word 1 of á é í ó ú ñ Á É Í Ó Ú Ñ ü
> 
>      - local dos : word `i' of `doss'
> 
>      = local dos : word 1 of a e i o u n a e i o u n u
> 
>      - local label : subinstr local label "`uno'" "`dos'", all
> 
>      = local label : subinstr local label "á" "a", all
> 
>      = local label0 : subinstr local label0 "á" "a", all
> 
> -          }
> 
> ************************
> 
> As you can see Stata reads “á”  instead of “á” and so on. Do you have
> any idea why it is happening? And, more importan, do you know how to
> solve it ?
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you so much.
> 
> 
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> 
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