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Re: st: replacing comma - multiple variables
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: replacing comma - multiple variables
Date
Wed, 11 May 2011 11:59:40 +0200
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:38 AM, lreine ycenna wrote:
> I use the command " replace `var' = subinstr(`var',",",".",.)" to
> replace comma. But I have over 100 variables, is there a quicker way
> to do this?
Yes, loop over variables. I just sent an example of how to do that in
response to your other question.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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