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st: how to handle this type of strings: "text (i.e it containes only one ")


From   Adrian Gonzalez <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: how to handle this type of strings: "text (i.e it containes only one ")
Date   Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:18:16 -0800 (PST)

Dear members

I have a string VARIABLE that contains the following value "text (the " is part of the string value).

and I want to delete those rows , but when i write
delete if VARIABLE=""text"

I get the following error
too few quotes
r(132);

i am using Stata 10.1

Thanks for your help



      
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