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st: charlist syntax error
From
Martyn Sherriff <[email protected]>
To
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Subject
st: charlist syntax error
Date
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:48:18 +0000
I regularly use charlist (SSC NJC 1.1.0 17 Dec 2002 ) to screen data
for strings in supposedly numeric data and I am getting a syntax error
with the following variable:
.d x35
x35 str3 %9s
. charlist x35
invalid syntax
r(198);
I can detect the errant characters:
. list x35 if missing(real(x35))
+-----+
| x35 |
|----- |
53. | 29n |
63. | 6` |
+-----+
I would be grateful if somebody could suggest what I am doing
incorrectly with charlist (it works with other variables in the
dataset).
Stata 13.
Thank you.
Martyn
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