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Re: st: loop until "0 real changes made"


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: loop until "0 real changes made"
Date   Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:06:31 +0100

Plus the "+" if needed.
Nick
[email protected]


On 29 July 2013 15:05, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> One answer is not to use regular expressions here at all. Use
> -subinstr()- with statements like
>
> replace `v' = subinstr(`v', "`=char(195)'`=char(135)'","C", .)
>
> Another answer is to set up a count of changes and stop when you hit zero.
>
> clonevar AD2 = AD
>
> foreach v of var AD {
>            replace AD2 = AD
>            <work with AD>
>            count if AD2 != AD
>            if r(N) == 0 continue, break
> }
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> On 29 July 2013 14:48, Haluk Vahaboglu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I am using Stata 12.1 for Linux-64 bit and dealing with Turkish characters in string variables. I convert these Turkish characters (ı, ş, ü etc) to readable equivalents (i, s, u etc). Doing this with the code below:
>>
>> foreach v of var AD {
>>            replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(135)'","C")
>>            replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(176)'","I")
>>            replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(167)'","c")
>>            replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(182)'","o")
>>            replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(177)'","i")
>>            replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(158)'","G")
>>            replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(196)'+`=char(159)'","g")
>>            replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(156)'","U")
>>           replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(188)'","u")
>>           replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(197)'+`=char(158)'","S")
>>           replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(195)'+`=char(150)'","O")
>>           replace `v'=regexr(`v', "`=char(197)'+`=char(159)'","s")
>> }
>>
>> However, this code cannot accomplish the conversion at the first time. Therefore, I have to do it 5 to 10 times to get a (0 real changes made) message.
>> My question is: can I make this loop run automatically until I get the (0 real changes made) message which indicates that all characters are converted.

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