Note also that even a despairing
. search string
would -- amid several false positives to be sure -- point to relevant material.
[U] Chapter 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dealing with strings
(help functions, destring)
[D] destring Convert string variables to numeric variables and vice versa
(help destring)
FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Numeric variables input as string
2/02 Stata is reading in my variables as string, whereas
they should be numeric. What should I do?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/allstring.html
SJ-2-3 pr0006 . . . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: On numbers and strings
Q3/02 SJ 2(3):314--329 (no commands)
explains the use of numeric and string data types in Stata
and how to convert from one kind to another
Nick
[email protected]
Michael Blasnik
> -destring-
>
> check out the ignore option to ignore the --
Terra Curtis
> > I have used a program called Stat Transfer to transfer a
> dataset I had saved
> > in Excel into a Stata .dta file. The missing values in Excel were
> > recorded
> > as "--" so Stata recognizes those variables as strings. I
> would like Stata
> > to recognize them as values; any datapoint not equal "--"
> is a number.
> > I've tried -recast- but I don't think this is what I want. How
> can I change
> > the variable to be a number instead of a string?
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