Re: st: encoding unique letter into a unique number for combinedcombinations

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

If your example is strictly true (you have all
uppercase letters, you want to map A->1,..., Z->26),
then:

forv i=1/26 {
	replace myvar = subinstr(myvar,char(`i'+64),string(`i',%02.0f),.)
}


hth,
Jeph



T.J. Volant wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My apologies if this questions seems primitive. How
> can I program so that it will encode each unique
> letter into a unique number? Example:
> I got hundreds of combinations of strings like:
> ABC
> ABB
> ACA
> Then, encode only gives me 1,2,3 in order. But I would
> like to label letter A=01, B=02, C=01 etc, and then
> have encode give me 010203, etc. How can I program
> this? 
> Thank you very much,
>
>
>
> Tj
>
>
>
>
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