I don't know about doing this in one command but, this will give you
the first character of your string variable
grade_number=substr(grade_school,1,1)
Then you can destring to have a numeric variable.
see http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?substr()
hope that helps
scott
On 9/14/07, Daniel Macneil <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi,
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> this should be easy. I just want to convert all the strings in one variable into integers.
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> 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.
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> thanks
> James
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> D. James MacNeil
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> Harvard Graduate School of Education
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