st: Getting rid of line-breaks in Data

[Elmar Saathoff <elmarsaathoff@gmx.net>]

Dear list members,

I am frequently using data that were imported from PDAs via MsAccess. In 
some cases these data contain some little squares that do not seem to do 
much harm in Stata, but that other applications interpret as 
linebreaks/carriage returns/paragraph marks, which is quite a hassle. It 
seems that these things are inadvertently entered into the PDAs by the 
people collecting the data. Unfortunately I cannot show them in this 
email, because my email client also interprets them as carriage returns.
Anyway, I have been trying to identify and get rid of these things by 
programming (using "subinstr", "egen...split" etc.), but unfortunately, 
whatever I do, Stata also interprets them as carriage returns, both in 
do files and in the command window, even if I change the delimiter to 
";" via the delimit command.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Elmar
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