Greetings,
I have several data sets (from the World Bank Governance indicators) where the names of countries sometimes have one or two asterisks following their names, e.g.:
Afghanistan
Albania**
Armenia
Azerbaijan*
etc. I want to get rid of the asterisks to merge them with a master data set. Aside from editing each name individually, I presume that there is an easier way that I just don't know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ric Uslaner
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