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Re: st: St: variable editing


From   "Friedrich Huebler" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: St: variable editing
Date   Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:54:09 -0400

Ric,

If the name of the variable is "country" you can remove the asterisks
with this command:

. replace country = subinstr(country,"*","",.)

Friedrich

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Eric Uslaner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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