Renaming observations in string variable

[Santiago Molano]

Hello! I have the variable statename which contains the names of different countries. This is a string variable so when using tab statename the values I obtain are of course words. I am looking to change some of these observations for example, changing the observation "Congo, Democratic Republic of (Zaire)" to "Democratic Republic of Congo". Thank you in advance!

[Nick Cox]

An observation in Stata is, in other language, an entire row, record, case or item in a dataset.

You can change the string values of a string variable with replace, as in

replace statename = "Democratic Republic of Congo" if strpos(statename, "Zaire")

where I am guessing that no other observations contain "Zaire" as a substring. If in doubt then check beforehand

tab statename if strpos(statename, "Zaire")

[Santiago Molano]

An observation in Stata is, in other language, an entire row, record, case or item in a dataset.

You can change the string values of a string variable with replace, as in

replace statename = "Democratic Republic of Congo" if strpos(statename, "Zaire")

where I am guessing that no other observations contain "Zaire" as a substring. If in doubt then check beforehand

tab statename if strpos(statename, "Zaire")

Thank you!