No. The -string- option of -reshape- is not a switch that has to do with string variables.
A solution has already been signalled to Zoe: to look at -sxpose- from SSC.
Nick
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Joao Ricardo F. Lima
cant you use -reshape- with the string option?
2009/8/24 ZoeW <[email protected]>:
> How to transpose column into row?
>
> I have 2 variables (in column) with 10 observations (rows). They are all strings. Now I want to transpose them. Tried xpose, but all the strings were turned into missing. I want to keep the strings as is.
>
> Example:
>
> Column1 C2
> Name XXYY
> YEAR 37
> Gender female
>
> I want to change them into
> Name Year Gender
> XXYY 37 female
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