Paolo,
you need compound quotes:
left quote `"
right quote "'
leads to:
subinstr(diagnosi,`"""',"",.)
Hope this helps,
Eva
2008/7/8 Paolo Grillo <[email protected]>:
> Dear all,
> I am facing on this problem: how can I treat -"- as a normal character in
> order to be recognized with string function.
> As example I have - replace diagnosis= subinstr(diagnosis,":","",.) - but I
> would like to replace every " instead of :.
> The command would be - replace diagnosi= subinstr(diagnosi," " ","",.)- ,
> but it doesn't work (too few quotes).
> Any help or idea?
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Paolo Grillo
>
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