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Re: st: insheet and dropping cases
From
Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
To
Statalist Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: insheet and dropping cases
Date
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:41:00 -0600
On Feb 20, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Ben Hoen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there no way to sleuth out the occurrences of double quotes and change
> them to single or something other?
>
> I just tried: . filefilter IL.txt IL2.txt, from(") to() replace
>
> And got this response:
>
> unmatched quote
> r(198);
You want
filefilter IL.txt IL2.txt, from(\Q) to() replace
instead (see [D] filefilter for more info). Of course, if you strip them out completely, then you won't be able to put them back; as an alternative, you might consider replacing them (temporarily) with some other sequence that is unlikely to occur in the file(s).
-- Phil
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