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RE: st: adding spcial character(" ") in a string


From   tashi lama <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: adding spcial character(" ") in a string
Date   Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:57:09 +0000

you are right. It actually works but the text are all over. I actually found another way of doing although I picked up half od Daniel's code. I pulled away myself from using daniel's code because I couldn't understand bottom half of his code esp the loops. And also, the macronames identical to varnames make it follow even difficult. Anyone willing to break down Daniel's loop will be highly appreciated. The code I used was.. 
gen text1=string(bar)+" "+string(foo)+`" ""'+foobar+`"""'
levelsof text1, local(text) clean 
tsset foo 
tsline bar, ttext(`text')

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> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: adding spcial character(" ") in a string
> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:30:35 -0700
>
> The example that Dan sent you works fine on my machine. Did you make sure
> to clean up any carriage returns or characters that are in their place in
> the e-mail?
>
> HTH,
> Billy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tashi lama
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 12:26 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: adding spcial character(" ") in a string
>
> I fail to understand the loop. Also confusing are the macro names that are
> identical to varnames. Is that by necessity or just coincidence? The program
> fails to run by the way. Thanx anyway.
> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:04:59 +0200
> > Subject: Re: st: adding spcial character(" ") in a string
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> >
> > Might be a little clumsy, but this works for me
> >
> > clear
> > inp foo bar str7 foobar
> > 23 42 "foo bar"
> > 42 23 "foobar"
> > end
> >
> > tsset foo
> >
> > g foobar2 = ///
> > strofreal(foo) + " " + strofreal(bar) + `" ""' + foobar + `"""'
> >
> > qui levelsof foobar2 ,l(foo)
> >
> > forv j = 1/`: word count `foo'' {
> > loc bar `bar' `=char(96)'`j'`=char(39)'
> > }
> > token `"`foo'"'
> >
> > tsline foo, ttext(`bar')
> >
> > Best
> > Daniel
> >
> > --
> > I am guessing that my two previous posts weren't clear enough for
> > readers to respond/generate idea because I am sure there has to be a
> > solution to this. So, I am attempting to make it as readable as
> > possible. Here is a subset of my dataset.
> > hits date title
> > 23 23jan2011 Earning Report
> > 41 04feb2011 Metamorphosis
> >
> > I would like to use tsline and use ttext option progrmmatically as
> > follows. Typing manually is no issue.
> > tsline hits, ttext(23 23jan2011 "Earning Report" 41 04feb2011
> > "Metamorphosis")
> >
> > I was successful in getting above command but without character(" ")
> > inside ttext. Does someone have any idea how to do it?
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