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st: RE: cleaning height data
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"Radwin, David" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: cleaning height data
Date
Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:37:42 -0500
Try compound quotation marks:
. split height, p(`"""')
David
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David Radwin, Senior Research Associate
Education and Workforce Development
RTI International
2150 Shattuck Ave. Suite 800, Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: 510-665-8274
www.rti.org/education
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Kathleen L. Carluzzo
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 1:22 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: cleaning height data
>
> Hello, I am trying to clean height data that looks like this:
>
> height
> 5' 5"
> 5' 0.5"[PT S
> 5' 5"[verb
> 5' 2"
> 6' 0.5"[stat
>
> I want to convert height to inches; using the "split" command, I can split
> the variable at feet using the single quotation but can't split out the
> inches because the sign for inches is one double quotation mark ("), which
> gives me the error message "unmatched quote". For example,
>
> This works: split height, p(' )
> This does not work: split height, p(")
> Nor does this: strparse height, gen(height_in) parse(")
>
> I also tried variables on this, such as: split height, p(""")
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks!
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