David is quite correct, as far as the default of -encode- is concerned.
The most puzzling question not yet answered is why -destring- would not
oblige in this case. I think the questioner has some bad stuff lurking
in their data.
Nick
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David Kantor
At 09:35 AM 9/8/2009, Martin Weiss wrote:
>-encode- is the wrong tool, as it assigns numeric codes arbitrarily.
[...]
I believe it is not arbitrary. It works, apparently (in Stata 10), on
alphabetic order, which would yield the same result as the string
version.
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