Re: st: Removing quotation marks in string variables

[Chamara Anuranga <kcanuranga@gmail.com>]

Hi,

use following
replace var1 = subinstr(var1,`"""',"",10)

This will replace " as empty 10 times in the variable var1. you have
to use `' sings and quotation.

Thanks,
Chamara

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:27 PM, John Adam Roberts
<roberts.john.adam@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a dataset that is full of strings that look like this:
>
> ATUS00001213, "ATUS00001256","Jackson,Collin"
>
> I'm going to separate these values into different variables and I'm
> wondering how to remove the "s from the dataset.
>
> For other characters, like commas, I would use the following command:
> replace tags = subinstr(tags,",","",.)
>
> but
> replace tags = subinstr(tags,""","",.)
> replace tags = subinstr(tags,'"',"",.)
> replace tags = subinstr(tags,""",.,.)
> replace tags = subinstr(tags,'"',.,.)
> don't work.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help!
>
> -Adam
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