I am writing a program to clean up some data and I wish to delete certain
characters from my data. I have been using the subinstr command with the
following syntax:
replace `var' = subinstr(`var',"(removed character)","",.);
This works exactly as I intend, except for the double quotes character (")
and the question mark (?). I referenced the stata manual and although the
issue is addressed, their solution does not seem to work for me. They say
to use the compound double quotes (`" "'). But doing so makes no
difference for me. Stata still is unable to correctly read the following
code:
replace `var' = subinstr(`var',`"""',"",.);
replace `var' = subinstr(`var',"?","",.);
I have no idea why it wont work for the question mark either.
If anyone has experienced similar problems or knows of a solution, please
inform.
Thank you,
Kyle
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