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st: RE: Re: transform string to numeric vars

From	"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To	<[email protected]>
Subject	st: RE: Re: transform string to numeric vars
Date	Tue, 3 Jun 2003 19:13:31 +0100

Michael Blasnik

> I haven't checked, but I would 
> guess that destring
> checks to see what numeric type is needed to maintain all digits.

Correct. 

By default, -destring- generates new variables as -double- and then 
tries to -compress- them. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

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