st: classification problem

[<burkom@comcast.net>]

Dear Statalisters,

My dataset has a column consisting of many strings.  I also have a text file
with a table that groups these strings into 15 categories.  Can anyone
suggest a Stata method of forming a new column that gives the category
number of each string?

Thanks very much,
Howard Burkom

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