STRIP: Stata module to strip unwanted characters

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P.T.Seed: United Medical & Dental School

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: strip removes unwanted characters (usually punctuation marks) from string variables, and saves the transformed string as a new variable. Uses include: converting numbers formatted with commas to ordnary strings, standardising codes that sometimes include spaces. Tidying up various types of messy data entry.

Language: Stata
Date: 1997-09-11

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