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RE: st: Changing missing values in string variable
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]> 
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RE: st: Changing missing values in string variable 
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Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:05:58 +0200 
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" It looks like it just
made blanks where there wer "."'s."
If it reports "0 real changes made", then Stata is probably not resposible
for the blanks...
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Hecht
Sent: Freitag, 18. Juni 2010 05:15
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Changing missing values in string variable
It didn't work.  I got "0 real changes made." It looks like it just
made blanks where there wer "."'s.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Philipp Rehm <[email protected]> wrote:
> .
> How about:
>
> replace sector="OTHER" if sector=="."
>
> HTH,
> Ph
>
> On 6/17/2010 10:43 PM, Jason Hecht wrote:
>>
>> I have a string variable with abbreviations for different sectors
>> (e.g., "CYC" for consumer cyclicals).  I want to change the "."'s to
>> "OTHER."  Is there an easy "replace" or "recode" command to do this
>> for a string variable?
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