add double quotes to values

[Noe Zhou]

Someone asked how to remove double quotes from a string, but I want to add double quotes to string values, for example:
my name is Adam
"my name is Adam"
What are the options for doing this? Thanks.

[William Lisowski]

The key is to enclose the quotation mark in what Stata calls compound quotation marks, and to remember that "+" is how to concatenate strings in Stata.

`" and "'

So for example

. clear

. set obs 1
number of observations (_N) was 0, now 1

. generate str50 text = "my name is Adam"

. generate str50 new  = `"""' + text + `"""'

. list, clean noobs

               text                 new  
    my name is Adam   "my name is Adam"  

.

Or

. generate str50 text = `""my name is Adam""'

. list, clean noobs

                 text  
    "my name is Adam"