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Re: st: browse if regexm(make,".")
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: browse if regexm(make,".")
Date
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:59:14 +0100
... because . has a particular meaning as a regular expression. If you
want to search for literal dots you must specify "\.". -- or use
-strpos(make, ".").
Nick
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually, I have this problem as well:
>
> ****
> sysuse auto
> browse if regexm(make,"A")==1 // it lists all string variables with a "A"
> browse if regexm(make,".")==1 // it lists everything instead of just the obs with a dot(".")
> ****
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