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st: excluding variables by type


From   "Libby Hemphill" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: excluding variables by type
Date   Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:18:21 -0400

Hi,

I'm wondering if there's a way to loop through all my variables and
perform some action only on those that are numeric.  Is there a way to
check for the type of the variable before doing something?  Like

for each variable
if string, next
else do X
end for

Thanks!

-- 
Libby Hemphill
Doctoral Candidate
School of Information
University of Michigan
http://www.libbyh.com
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