st: Quote Quote Unquote Unquote??

[miyu Lee <miyu.lee1@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

I have a small issue regarding quotation marks:

I want to remove all quote marks from my dataset, seems it doesnt work
with the substring command.

For example, "replace variable = subinstr( variable, """, " ",.)"

(that is triple quotation marks) doesnt work, (rightly) saying "too few quotes"

or: "replace variable = subinstr (variable, """", " ", .)" works -
unfortunately removing everything within quotation marks.

Hmmmm, does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
Miyu
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