Re: st: Is there a simple way to change the storage type from str tonumerical

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

You should look at
-destring-

I hope this helps.
--David

At 10:25 PM 7/11/2004 -0800, Maoyong wrote:
> Dear Friends:
>
>           I want to change the storage type of a variable in my dataset 
> from str to numerical.  I have tried
>
> recast int admit_major, force
> recast2 int admit_major, force
>
> but get the error message
>
> admit_major:  int invalid
> r(109); t=0.01 22:18:01
>
> The variable admit_major is string type and looks like:
>
> 1
> 3
> 4
> 5
> [...]
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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