-egenmore- on SSC has a function -base()- that
gets you halfway with this.
. egen binary = base(var1)
. forval i = 1/6 {
. gen str1 code`i' = substr(binary,`i',1)
. }
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Jeffrey Simons
> Sent: 10 March 2004 13:48
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Re: decimal to binary conversion
>
>
> I want to take a variable that is in decimal format and
> convert it to a six
> digit binary number. Then take that and form six new
> indicator variables.
>
> For example,
>
> . inbase 2 29
> 11101
>
> Provides this. I would like to write a do file to loop
> through the values of
> a variable and do this. Converting the answer to six new indicator
> variables.
>
> So if var1 took on values of 15, 29, 35, ...
> I'd like to get
>
> var1 v1a v1b v1c v1d v1e v1f
> 15 0 0 1 1 1 1
> 29 0 1 1 1 0 1
> 35 1 0 0 0 1 1
> ....
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