Dear statalists,
I have a localname xy containing some letters among which there is space.
And I want rename a variable the localname xy. Due to the space, I took the
-subinstr- funtion to eliminate the space. However, that treatment produced
double-quotes surrounding the letters. How to deal with it?
To make what I said clear, I take an example below.
local xy "ab cd ef"
rename variable subinstr("`xy'"," ","",.)
Based on the typing above, Stata gives an error message "( not allowed r(101)".
Thank you very much for any help.
Best regards,
Rose.
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