Re: st: RE: Help on double or single quote search in a String

[Tom Trikalinos <ttrikalin@mac.com>]

False alarm then.
Seems that I share Kit Baum's preference for Macs too strongly.

For other characters, for greek characters in particular ( \delta , 
\Theta etc.) I think that there may be some differences.

Tom

On Oct 26, 2004, at 7:43 PM, Nick Cox wrote:


> Good advice, but all this works the same under Windows,
> fortunately.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Tom Trikalinos
>
> > Perhaps another way around is to use the _char()_  function
> > . index(yourStringVariable, char(n))
> >
> > In MacOsX at least:
> > n=39 id the right single quote (')
> > n=96 is the left quote (`)
> > n=34 is the double quote (")
> >
> > This is different in Windows.
> >
> > To easily see what n corresponds to what character in your platform,
> > run the following in a do-file:
> > forvalues i=1/255{
> >     di "`i' for " char(`i')
> > }
> >
> > and pick the n you need.
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