TRIM_VARS: Stata module to trim blanks in a varlist

Kaifeng Deng ()
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Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: The trim_vars command removes leading and trailing Unicode whitespace characters and blanks, as well as multiple, consecutive internal blanks, from the list of variable[s] the user inputs. trim_vars finds all of the string variables in the current dataset and performs trimming on them if _all or * are specified in varlist.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 17
Keywords: data management; string variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-05-10
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install trim_vars". 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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