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Re: st: Quote Quote Unquote Unquote??
From
Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Quote Quote Unquote Unquote??
Date
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:31:39 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Wed, 23/3/11, miyu Lee wrote:
> I want to remove all quote marks from my dataset, seems it
> doesnt work with the substring command.
>
> For example, "replace variable = subinstr( variable, """, "
> ",.)"
>
> (that is triple quotation marks) doesnt work, (rightly)
> saying "too few quotes"
see -help quotes- especially look at "compound quotes"
*------------- begin example ---------------
clear
input str5 foo
`""bar""'
end
list
replace foo = subinstr( foo, `"""', "",.)
list
*-------------- end example -----------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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