Howard Burkom
> 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?
Read the text file to make another dataset and
then use -merge-. [R] merge gives relevant examples.
Nick
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