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| From | Steve Samuels <sjsamuels@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: AW: st: replace-all can crash do-file |
| Date | Sun, 16 May 2010 16:58:54 -0400 |
Stata's regular expression parser has many limitations, but this is not one of them. The "^" has told the parser to look only for digits at the start of a line. Steve Steven J Samuels 18 Cantine's Island Saugerties NY USA 845-246-0774 For example, if you type ^[0-9]+ in the "find what" box, it finds all expressions of a series of digits in the do file. But it only find those digit series that are at the very beginning of a line, not those that are somewhere in the middle of a line, or even those that start at a line after one space. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/