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Re: st: browse if regexm(make,".")
From
Robert Picard <[email protected]>
To
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Subject
Re: st: browse if regexm(make,".")
Date
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:57:43 -0400
When using regular expressions, the "." matches everything. If you
need to match a dot, use "\."
Robert
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:54 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> Actually, I have this problem as well:
>
> ****
> sysuse auto
> browse if regexm(make,"A")==1 // it lists all string variables with a "A"
> browse if regexm(make,".")==1 // it lists everything instead of just the obs with a dot(".")
> ****
>
> Best,
>
> Xavier
>
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