Re: st: re: discerning a variable's "type"

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

At 03:08 PM 5/1/2005 -0400, Kit Baum wrote:
> [...]
> 1) compress will turn a "false float" into an appropriate integer (but one 
> may not want to routinely compress a data set just to find that out!)
>
> [...]
I would add that -compress- will not change a float to a long (if the 
values are all integers, but includes values too large for int or byte), as 
that does not reduce the storage space. If you are interested in converting 
float to long -- because it is the appropriate type for an integer-valued 
variable, then I recommend my -floattolong- program.  See -ssc desc 
floattolong-.

Thanks,
-- David

David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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