st: need help destringing a variable

["Daniel Macneil" <macneida@gse.harvard.edu>]

hi,

this should be easy. I just want to convert all the strings in one variable into integers.

e.g., the variable is grade_school (current grade in school)and the variable column has "2nd" 
"5th" etc., and I want to make it "2", "5" by issuing just one command.

thanks
James






D. James MacNeil
Doctoral Candidate
Harvard Graduate School of Education
macneida@gse.harvard.edu
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