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Re: st: comparing two .dta files
On Feb 12, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Gabi Huiber wrote:
Sergiy: how do you byte-compare in Stata? A google search brought
up all sorts of software tools for the job but no Stata reference.
See -help datasignature-, which will allow you to compute (and
verify) a checksum of the dataset. If the two datasets really are
the same (except perhaps for labels, etc.), then this will do what
you need. In fact, it may arguably be the best approach in this
particular situation.
-- Phil
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