charlist displays a sorted list of the distinct characters present in values of a string variable. charlist may, for example, reveal the presence of problematic characters in a string variable which "should be" numeric. It leaves behind a terse character list in r(chars); a space-separated character list in r(sepchars); and a space-separated numlist of ASCII codes in r(ascii). Any may be used in a subsequent command. Sometimes copying and pasting all or part of the displayed output to the command window may be the most practical way to use the output, say as argument to destring, ignore().
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Software component provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Statistical Software Components with number
S430301.
Size: Programming language: Stata Requires: Stata version 7.0 Date of creation: 17 Dec 2002 Date of revision:
29 Apr 2005 Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s430301
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