CHIMCHAR: Stata module to thoroughly clean string variables

Tommy Morgan ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: chimchar stands for CHanging IMpractical CHARacters. It modifies characters in string variables that are unfriendly to functions like destring and reclink. In particular, it can replace special characters that are based on Latin letters with their closest plain Latin letter counterpart(s); for example, "Æ", "š" and "ĸ" become "ae", "s", and "k", respectively. You can choose to change special characters, fix special characters and remove numeric characters, or remove all non-numeric characters altogether.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 14
Keywords: text processing; Unicode (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-03-14, Revised 2025-02-19
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install chimchar". 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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