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Re: st: loop until "0 real changes made"
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: loop until "0 real changes made"
Date
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:34:55 -0400
Nick's solution with two variables is the most generic approach that
is useful in situations where it is difficult to predict if any
changes are going to happen as a result of your code. It certainly is
going to work here as well (I would only use a tempvar instead of AD2
and generate instead of clonevar).
However, why would you do this recoding to non-Turkish characters?
Stata works with Turkish characters like with any other for which a
corresponding ANSI page is available and proper font is installed:
http://radyakin.org/statalist/2013072901/turkish.png
http://radyakin.org/statalist/2013072901/turkish.do
The ANSI page for Turkish is 1254. And I would try e.g.:
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(158)'","`=char(208)'")
instead of
replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(158)'","G")
Best, Sergiy Radyakin
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Plus the "+" if needed.
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 29 July 2013 15:05, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> One answer is not to use regular expressions here at all. Use
>> -subinstr()- with statements like
>>
>> replace `v' = subinstr(`v', "`=char(195)'`=char(135)'","C", .)
>>
>> Another answer is to set up a count of changes and stop when you hit zero.
>>
>> clonevar AD2 = AD
>>
>> foreach v of var AD {
>> replace AD2 = AD
>> <work with AD>
>> count if AD2 != AD
>> if r(N) == 0 continue, break
>> }
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>> On 29 July 2013 14:48, Haluk Vahaboglu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I am using Stata 12.1 for Linux-64 bit and dealing with Turkish characters in string variables. I convert these Turkish characters (ı, ş, ü etc) to readable equivalents (i, s, u etc). Doing this with the code below:
>>>
>>> foreach v of var AD {
>>> replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(135)'","C")
>>> replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(176)'","I")
>>> replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(167)'","c")
>>> replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(182)'","o")
>>> replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(177)'","i")
>>> replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(158)'","G")
>>> replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(159)'","g")
>>> replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(156)'","U")
>>> replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(188)'","u")
>>> replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(197)'+`=char(158)'","S")
>>> replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(150)'","O")
>>> replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(197)'+`=char(159)'","s")
>>> }
>>>
>>> However, this code cannot accomplish the conversion at the first time. Therefore, I have to do it 5 to 10 times to get a (0 real changes made) message.
>>> My question is: can I make this loop run automatically until I get the (0 real changes made) message which indicates that all characters are converted.
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