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Asked: 2026-06-17T18:52:20+00:00

I have a dataset which I export with command outsheet into a csv-file. There

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I have a dataset which I export with command outsheet into a csv-file. There are some rows which breaks line at a certain place. Using a hexadecimal editor I could recognize the control character for line feed “0a” in the record. The value of the variable producing the line break shows visually (in Stata) only 5 characters. But if I count the number of characters:

gen xlen = length(x)

I get 6. I could write a Perl programm to get rid of this problem but I prefer to remove the control characters in Stata before exporting (for example using regexr()). Does anyone have an idea how to remove the control characters?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The char() function calls up particular ASCII characters. So, you can delete such characters by replacing them with empty strings.

    replace x = subinstr(x, char(10), "", .)
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