st: tsset in ver 8

["Joshua Hawley" <joshjenny@worldnet.att.net>]

Does anyone have a strategy to use tsset when the panel var is a string?
And....the quick solution of translating the variable to numeric will not
work because the variable has leading zeros.

Thanks!

Josh Hawley
Ohio State
hawley.32@osu.edu

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