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| From | Adrian Gonzalez <agonzalezmix@yahoo.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: how to handle this type of strings: "text (i.e it containes only one ") |
| Date | Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:18:16 -0800 (PST) |
Dear members
I have a string VARIABLE that contains the following value "text (the " is part of the string value).
and I want to delete those rows , but when i write
delete if VARIABLE=""text"
I get the following error
too few quotes
r(132);
i am using Stata 10.1
Thanks for your help
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