Re: st: replace part of observations in a string variable

[daniel klein <klein.daniel.81@googlemail.com>]

I suggest to also take a look into this:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-10/msg00454.html
(Nick Cox once again)

The problem might be characters in <new2> that appear to be spaces
(-char(32)-), but are something else (e.g. -char(160)-).

Also note that you probably do not want to -replace- the strings with
a space, i.e. " ", but with an empty string, i.e. "" (which is Stata's
missing value for strings).

Best
Daniel

-- 
Hi all,

I want to replace part of observations in the string variable to
missing values. For example, I want to replace "Pasir Mas" to either
"." or " " from a string variable named as "new2"

[...]

Observation "Pasir Mas" was not replaced by " " . What have I done
wrong? What is the better way of working with string variable?
Appreciate everyone's' time in responding to this.

Regards

<redacted>
*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/