That is true, though it makes you do it one at a time as far as I know.
>--- Patrick W�hrle Guimar�es <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I generated one dataset in SAS and I would like to work in Stata. I
>> have Stat/Transfers 8.2 and I did the change. I used describe to see
>> the data and for my surprise they were in format string (all).
>
>Stat/Transfer lets you choose for each variable the type (string, long,
>float, double, etc.) That option is under the tab "Variables".
>
>Hope this helps,
>Maarten
>
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