st: Escaping left quote as argument of parse in split command

["Florian Kuhn" <florian@mail.utexas.edu>]

Hi all,

in my dataset, I have a string variable “id” in which the left single quote 
` is used to separate a first and second part of the id (the creators of the 
dataset were clearly not using Stata). For example, a typical entry in the 
column "id" would be 15`32. I am trying to recover both parts of the id as 
separate variables using the "split" command.
However, escaping the backtick does not seem to work:
split id, parse("\`")
gives the error message:
{ required
r(100);

Am I missing something obvious here?
Thanks,
Florian 

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