CLEANCHARS: Stata module to replace specific characters or strings in variable names and/or variable labels and/or string variable values and/or value label names and levels with stated characters/strings (using 1-1 or m-1 match)

Lars Angquist ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: cleanchars is a program that helps out with replacing unwanted/inconvenient characters/strings in the currently active dataset. Entities searched through, and where changes could be applied, are (i) variable names (ii) variable labels (iii) string variable values (iv) value label names and corresponding level-labels. Moreover, an option directly putting all variable names into lower case is available. Note: Changes related to variable names depend on the user-written command ‘renvars’ (Weesie & Cox, 2005).

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 10 and renvars from SSC (q.v.)
Keywords: data management; string variables; character encodings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-10-13
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install cleanchars". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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