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st: Cleaning Strings and Regular Expressions
From
Cory Smith <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Cleaning Strings and Regular Expressions
Date
Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:57:52 -0500
Hiya all,
I'm looking to use regular expressions or another command to remove an
arbitrary list of characters from a string. For example, I might want
to remove all punctuation so
hi.there,gu;ys. becomes hithereguys
I'd love to use regexr, but it only replaces the first substring. Is
there a way to use (STATA) regular expressions for this? Otherwise I'm
stuck with running subinstr in a for loop.
Cory
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