You need to bind the "red" with more quotes. Try:
disp "The house is "`""red""'" "
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of alvine.bissery@chu-lyon.fr
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 6:20 AM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Display " "
>
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to display this sentence
>
> the house is "red"
>
> I tried display "the house is "red" "
>
> But it did not work.
> It seems to have a problem to display the symbol " "
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