If you have only one observation per id, you might try
Sort id * if it makes sense to sort them
Gen idnum=_n
If you have multiple observations per id, you can generalize this easily
Tony
Peter A. Lachenbruch
Department of Public Health
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Benson Limann
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 2:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Individual IDs with non-numeric characters
Dear all:
The individual IDs in my dataset are in the string format. I currently
use -destring- to make them numeric. But, unfortunately, some individual
IDs have non-numeric characters. As a result, -destring- with the
-force- option deletes all these individuals automatically.
Given that I want to sort all the observations, is it possible to keep
these individuals with non-numeric IDs?
Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated,
Ben
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