Dear Statalists,
I collected data from the internet. One variable looks identical to my eyes but appears differently in Stata 16 SE. As shown in the picture below, both strings are "waterproofing_materials", but one has 23 in length, the other has 26. I guess some invisible characters exist there, but I could not figure out what they are yet.
I tried replacing char(1) to char(40), but it does not make a difference. I uploaded the dta and excel file as attachments. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Best,
Kailin
I collected data from the internet. One variable looks identical to my eyes but appears differently in Stata 16 SE. As shown in the picture below, both strings are "waterproofing_materials", but one has 23 in length, the other has 26. I guess some invisible characters exist there, but I could not figure out what they are yet.
I tried replacing char(1) to char(40), but it does not make a difference. I uploaded the dta and excel file as attachments. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Best,
Kailin
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