Hi Statalisters,
The -hexdump- command screens a file to check out what characters
appear within a file. I am hoping to do something similar - but only
with a subset of the variables within the data.
I know that I can do it by saving the variables in a separate file,
and do a -hexdump- on that file. I am just wondering if there are
other command which would allow me to save that step.
I have a couple dozens of string varibles and I want to check that
they only have alphabetical and numerical characters within them, and
strip out the characters which aren't. It's kind of hard to know what
I need to strip out if I don't know what are in there to be strip out.
Thus my question above.
Many thanks for your help in advance!!
Regards,
Ada
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Ada Ma
Research Fellow
Health Economics Research Unit
University of Aberdeen, UK.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/heru/
Tel: +44 (0) 1224 555189
Fax: +44 (0) 1224 550926
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