Dear statalist users,
I need to clean a string variable containing the names of a
large number of firms (over 30,000). In many cases these
names contain extra characters that I would like to
eliminate, such as % or " or ^. These characters always come
at the beginning of the name. I know that Stata has a
command (trim) that eliminates leading and trailing blank
spaces from string variables. Is there a similar command to
eliminate leading "undesired" characters? Thank you so much
for your help.
Best,
Mario
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Mario Macis
PhD Candidate
Department of Economics
University of Chicago
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