or use -destring- after input
also see http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/destring7.htm
Daniel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of
> andreasalvatori@libero.it
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 3:36 PM
> To: statalist
> Subject: st: changing format
>
>
> A stupid question:
>
> I have a lot of numerical values which have been inputted as
> string values: how do I tell STATA to read them as numbers?
>
>
> Andrea Salvatori
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