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Re: st: a warning -- help
From
Eric Booth <[email protected]>
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"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: a warning -- help
Date
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:06:10 +0000
<>
try: replace var = subinstr(var, "`=char(160)'", "", .)
replacing "var" with your variable name.
See these threads for more:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-10/msg00139.html
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-04/msg00891.html
- Eric
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Eric A. Booth
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On Nov 18, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Katie and Matt O'Varanese wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am working with data that for a program variable (i.d. - Grade 10,
> Grade 11, etc) shows up sometimes in the browse as "Grade 10
> +++++++++++++" (but more like an icon that looks like a cross, not a
> plus sign.
>
> Also, a warning comes up in codebook that says "warning: this variable
> contains embedded blanks".
>
> How can i get rid of the crosses? Any tricks out there?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kate
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